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 8/19/07
Source: Nielson VideoScan via http://www.homemediamagazine.com/
Weekly sales: Blu-ray leads HD DVD 71% to 29%, 100:40.8, or 2.45:1
YTD sales: Blu-ray leads HD DVD 67% to 33%, 100:49.3, or 2.03
Since Inception sales: Blu-ray leads HD DVD 61% to 39%, 100:63.9, or 1.56:1
A very nice week for Blu-ray overall, trouncing HD DVD by almost 2.5:1. It kind of makes you wonder if executives at Paramount are red/blue color blind and just saw the graphs inversed.
Next week should be an even greater week for Blu-ray with four new releases (though none of them major titles) versus no new HD DVD releases.
Nielson VideoScan Top 10 for Week Ending 8/19/07
Source: Nielson VideoScan via http://www.homemediamagazine.com/
In order to make sense of the Paramount announcement one need only look at the great sales of Disturbia, which came in at number 5 on... oh, wait that's the Blu-ray version. Surely the HD DVD did better. Or it didn't even rank in the Top 10. Way to go Paramount!
Looking at the full list of titles, 8 of the Top 10 titles are on the Blu-ray format, with only two HD DVD titles even making the ranks... and none of the four Universal HD DVD titles that came out last week even made the cut.
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