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 10/28/07
Source: Nielson VideoScan via http://www.homemediamagazine.com/
Weekly sales: Blu-ray leads HD DVD 55% to 45%, 100:81.8, or 1.22:1
YTD sales: Blu-ray leads HD DVD 64% to 36%, 100:56.3, or 1.78:1
Since Inception sales: Blu-ray leads HD DVD 60% to 40%, 100:66.7, or 1.5:1
An overall so-so week, with no huge new releases on either side. With Transformers being the only major release of last week, the numbers show HD DVD in a better light than it has looked most of the year. Next week will mark the release of the Blu-ray juggernaut Spiderman 3, so HD DVDs main time to shine will have come and gone with not a single weekly victory to show as a result.
Nielson VideoScan Top 10 for Week Ending 10/28/07
Source: Nielson VideoScan via http://www.homemediamagazine.com/
While a few new Blu-ray titles bowed last week, Transformers remained the dominant title. Most of the rest of the list are just older catalog titles. Disappointingly, none of the new Stanley Kubrick titles made the top 10 list, probably because of Warner's recent distribution problems causing delays in getting the titles actually out to stores. Hopefully, those excellent titles will make an appearance next week, though catalog titles never do particularly well.
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