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 11/11/07
Source: Nielson VideoScan via http://www.homemediamagazine.com/
Weekly sales: Blu-ray leads HD DVD 65% to 35%, 100:53.8, or 1.86:1
YTD sales: Blu-ray leads HD DVD 64% to 36%, 100:53.8, or 1.86:1
Since Inception sales: Blu-ray leads HD DVD 61% to 39%, 100:63.9, or 1.56:1
Am I the only who's starting to find this whole war becoming rather repetitive? Another week, another essentially 2:1 victory for Blu-ray. HD DVD still hasn't won a week all year, and Blu-ray still hasn't pulled out quite far enough to kill off its rival completely. Someone needs to take HD DVD off life support so we can all stop watching the weekly trends like something new might happen. Hopefully, after Q4 is over, we can officially call this "war" over.
Nielson VideoScan Top 10 for Week Ending 11/11/07
Source: Nielson VideoScan via http://www.homemediamagazine.com/
And again, 7 of the top 10 HD titles are Blu-ray discs, furthering showing the strength of the format and its studios. The only neutral studio, Warner, only managed one spot on the list this week, and it was, of course, for a Blu-ray title, and an aging one at that. It's good to see all the Pixar films doing extremely well on Blu, and even another Disney animated film making the top 10 even though its a few weeks old now. Anyone who thinks Disney's "vote" doesn't matter really should check out these numbers.
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