Every week Home Media Magazine reports the latest Nielson VideoScan numbers for the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD battle. They include three figures: Weekly, Year-to-date, and Since Inception. Weekly numbers examine discs sold at retail over the course of just the current week, the YTD numbers look at sales from the first week ending in 2007 to the present, and the since inception numbers show the relative performance of Blu-ray and HD DVD discs since the formats' respective births.
Nielson VideoScan Data for Week Ending 5/13/07
Source: Nielson VideoScan via http://www.homemediamagazine.com/
Weekly sales: Blu-ray leads HD DVD 62% to 38%, 100:61.3, or 1.63:1
YTD sales: Blu-ray leads HD DVD 68% to 32%, 100:47.1, or 2.13:1
Since Inception sales: Blu-ray leads HD DVD 57% to 43%, 100:75.4, or 1.33:1
Well, my preiction for the week was off. So few discs sold that neither the YTD or Since Inception numbers moved at all. No new big releases on Blu-ray or DVD makes this week mirror last week pretty consistantly.
Nielson VideoScan Top 10 for Week Ending 5/13/07
Source: Nielson VideoScan via http://www.homemediamagazine.com/
To interpret this new chart, understand that for every 100 copies of the top title (rank 1) sold, stores sold the index number of the title you are comparing. So, this week, for every 100 copies of "Planet Earth" on HD DVD sold, 66.03 copies of "Planet Earth" on Blu-ray sold, etc.
So, for this week, 7 of out the Top 10 titles were Blu-ray, with only 3 being HD DVD. That said, "Planet Earth" on HD DVD remained the number 1 title across both formats, and no new release title on either format made the chart for the week.
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