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 8/26/07
Source: Nielson VideoScan via http://www.homemediamagazine.com/
Weekly sales: Blu-ray leads HD DVD 68% to 32%, 100:47.1, or 2.13:1
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
Another great week for Blu-ray... not too surprising really. The weekly charts really are becoming largely redundant at this point. Next week could be interesting though, as Blu-ray had no new releases (since Blades of Glory was cancelled), while HD DVD had several.
Nielson VideoScan Top 10 for Week Ending 8/26/07
Source: Nielson VideoScan via http://www.homemediamagazine.com/
So, two weeks after the Paramount announcement we see two Paramount titles make the top 10... and they're both on Blu-ray! Once again, anyone who doubts that a serious amount of "incentive payments" wasn't the primary reason for the Paramount announcement is clearly delusional. The numbers just don't add up otherwise.
Yet again, 8 of the Top 10 titles are Blu-ray for the week, with the only two HD DVD titles being titles available on both formats, and outsold by the Blu-ray version.
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