Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending May 4th, 2008

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Gus @ May 9th 2008 10:46PM

^ ^ Simple really, BR is too expensive and only caters for the elitist niche.

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Gus gets a fail.

Previous weeks, all you did was complain about the statistics, because they only compared top-20 sales numbers. Now you've got your total sales figures...and they aren't the 0.6% you were telling everybody they would be. BR sales revenue is 7% of DVD sales. And sad little you, all you can do is blurt out that BR is too expensive?

Nobody here is saying "BR already beat DVD!"...but there is no evidence in the statistics that BR is failing either. No evidence that only "rich" people are buying it either.

10 years ago, DVD players were hundreds of dollars too. Did you tell everybody that DVD's would always be for rich people only? BR disks, despite the high MSRP, don't actually sell at a much higher price than DVD's do, either.

For example: check out the movie 300 on Amazon:

BR: $19.95
HD DVD combo: $20.95
DVD Widescreen: $12.99
DVD Fullscreen: $18.49
DVD 2-disk: $24.99.

The BR price looks pretty middle-of-the-pack to me...

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