Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending June 15th, 2008
There are mixed results for Blu on this week's Nielsen VideoScan charts, courtesy of Home Media Magazine, because while revenues are up 27% over last week, when compared to DVD, Blu lost two percent. The big difference this week is The Bucket List which was easily number one on the DVD charts, but the Blu version didn't even managed one third the sales as the number one title, Jumper. The other explanation for the drop in share is while last week there were only five DVDs on the top twenty that didn't make it to Blu, this week there is seven thanks to HBO and Sony not bringing a couple new TV shows to Blu. Getting back to Jumper, it killed the rest of the Blu releases this week, forcing everyone else way down -- but somehow we doubt it'll have any legs. Next week both DVD and Blu-ray should be way down thanks to the weakest releases in some time, and we expect to see Blu-ray back to five or six percent.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Mr. E @ Jun 21st 2008 10:53PM
It's pretty amazing to see that 23% of last week's sales of I Am Legend were on Blu-ray. That movie's got high-def legs!
DVD4ME @ Jun 21st 2008 11:22PM
Click on the safety belts, here we go again :)
xemumanic @ Jun 22nd 2008 12:24AM
Perfect avatar dude.
Nfinity @ Jun 22nd 2008 1:23AM
I just have to say that I'm very impressed with Ben's commentary about sales this time around. ;)
Mike P @ Jun 22nd 2008 3:06AM
I don't understand how catalog titles like The Fifth Element don't outsell their DVD counterparts. I mean ~65% were Blu, but who is buying it on DVD? That is what scares me the most.
Mark @ Jun 22nd 2008 7:20AM
That second chart is probably % of sales EVER, not just this week.
Spiza @ Jun 22nd 2008 10:32AM
We've got a couple of geniuses on here. 65% of Fifth Elements sold on disc format for that week were blu-ray. That means it did outsell its DVD counterparts. Let me break it down like I would to a first grader. If you have 100 disc sales, 65 were blu-ray, 35 were DVD.
Spiza @ Jun 22nd 2008 10:33AM
Crap, first one didn't show.
FreeRange @ Jun 22nd 2008 1:02PM
Reply once, genius.
Just kidding..if I were you I'd just be happy all three of your posts were attached to the right original comment. (crosses fingers that this post goes underneath Spiza's comments)
Mark @ Jun 22nd 2008 7:23AM
Seems pretty clear that while the % may go up and down on a per-week basis, the general trend is upwards. A good week is where there are some popular titles for sales, a bad week is when there aren't, or when DVD gets something popular that Blu doesn't.
Spiza @ Jun 22nd 2008 10:46AM
I was looking at the magazine online, and saw the front page article on the $1 billion in sales for 08. Then it said they expected $2.5 billion in sales for 09. That tells me they don't expect blu-ray to surpass DVD in sales before digital downloads surpass both.
Gus @ Jun 23rd 2008 11:15PM
Voting yourself up again, idiot
Jody @ Jun 22nd 2008 11:07AM
Jumper, yikes a terrible movie, rented it on Blu and didn't even watch the whole thing. You can certainly tell that Blu-Ray sales are dominated by the PS3 crowd. Planet earth still in the top ten, talk about HD legs. In other news the only Blu-Ray disc in my PS3 for the last week: MGS4.....
mntwister @ Jun 22nd 2008 11:18AM
Jody, if the PS3 crowd dominates blu-ray sales, then how do you explain titles like Planet Earth, no young game players are really going to be that interested in a documentary like that, especially the teen crowd. Same with The Bucket List. I would guess they would use that money to buy a game. I still don't understand how some of you claim that it's only gamers who are blu-ray people and diminating the disc sales....I have 3 friends and myself who own PS3's for blu-ray and we are all over 35 years old and while we may own a game or two, we buy blu-rays. Go to the threads on the high def sites, many people own their PS3's for blu-ray only, simply because it's been the best and most updatable blu-ray player available. And they are not "teen" game players. This spin is getting very tiresome and it's just not correct. When blu-ray starts to increase in percentage of dvd sales, which will be the fall and the holiday season, what will be the next anti-blu complaint or reasoning why it will fail? Now we start to see 2.0 players, the "spinners" have stopped with that one. What's next? I am sure some of you will think of something (sigh).
FreeRange @ Jun 22nd 2008 1:02PM
My mom bought Planet Earth (in DVD, but still) for my nephew at Christmas and he absolutely LOVED it. He's 11. You don't need to have noticed your hair starting to fall out (sigh) before you can appreciate something that well made. Might help to have a job so you can afford it but, really now, if you've got a PS3 there's money to be had somewhere...
Nfinity @ Jun 22nd 2008 2:29PM
mntwister said: "Jody, if the PS3 crowd dominates blu-ray sales, then how do you explain titles like Planet Earth, no young game players are really going to be that interested in a documentary like that, especially the teen crowd."
That's where you are wrong..the reason this title sells so well to ANY audience is because it's a perfect HD showcase title. You get a PS3, bam you'll get Planet Earth to wow your friends. At least what most younger people do. Bragging.
The older crowd will indeed buy it for the actual content and enjoy this title for what it is. But everyone will be buying it as a reference title.
As for your comment about Blu-Ray sales. I think your hopes are way up. The situation is economy is worsening not getting better. With the fact that we don't know if the war will end or not, who will be the president, what will happen with gas.. there's absolutely zero chance of people buying expensive electronics to begin with.
If anything you will see an increase in DVD and DVD upscalers and DVD recorder sales because they are at like $50-$100 range and do very good job for most people.
If you are the one who can afford paying $20-$25 at the very least for Blu-Ray titles and are able to shell out $400 for a game console to watch movies doesn't mean that 80% of other people can. You know other people have families, priorities etc.
Just look at what's happening in Japan. The country where Blu-Ray was ADORED. They started buying DVD recorder in bucket loads. Blu-Ray is getting weaker there too.. Why? Well I can only assume that they are experiencing this world economic turmoil as well.
At this day of age, expensive electronics like Blu-Ray will maintain a niche market and do well only with people with higher income. I make a lot of money too, but I don't buy movies anymore. I put all that on pause. It's just way too costly. I go rent at blockbuster or download an HD movie from Vudu or Apple TV or XBL when I feel I want to watch something new.
The prices are way too high and really getting deals online with cheap discs is not what sells mainstream. Most people go to B&M stores and the prices there are $30+.
If 2.0 profile players and I'm not talking about Profile 1.x clearance sales players that are a plain ripoff to consumers don't go for below $200 this holiday season you won't see an INCH of movement in the mainstream adoption of Blu-Ray.
If it continue throughout 2009 digital downloads will overtake them. You can be pretty sure of that.. Nobody is willing to gamble for years and years when they have an incredibly potent money maker on the other side of the fence.
Mark @ Jun 22nd 2008 3:43PM
I see nothing wrong with the title output for blu ray. The number of whizz bang is higher in a new format but that's nothing unique to blu ray. People want to show off their new hardware so titles that show a lot of action and surround sound are obviously favored. The exact same thing happened on HD DVD and DVD. The argument that blu ray is only for PS3 "kiddies" was lame to begin with is lamer with each passing day.
Mike @ Jun 22nd 2008 7:07PM
How bout an affordable BD 2.0 player? Still waiting on that...
DrXym @ Jun 22nd 2008 12:20PM
Make up your mind baby. You piss and moan when classic and niche titles appear, and then you piss and moan about mainstream stuff. Grow up baby, your precious format lost.
JoN @ Jun 22nd 2008 12:26PM
i dont understand how spiderwick and 10,000 bc both out next week are "the weakest releases in some time"
both these movies are in genres good for blu - both looked good, both were decent flicks, and both did alright at the box office all things considered....
DrXym @ Jun 22nd 2008 5:59PM
10,000 BC has a tomatometer rating of 9% and made nearly 100 million USD at the domestic box office if you can believe that.
mikejonas @ Jun 22nd 2008 12:40PM
"The big difference this week is The Bucket List which was easily number one on the DVD charts, but the Blu version didn't even managed one third the sales as the number one title, Jumper. "
No-one wants liver spots in high def.
Gus @ Jun 22nd 2008 8:14PM
Thats because it's not flashy enough for the PS3 profile buyer.
Gus @ Jun 22nd 2008 8:14PM
Thats because it's not flashy enough for the PS3 profile buyer.
Gus @ Jun 22nd 2008 8:26PM
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Whats up with this %#@!*@! posting system ':(
Gus @ Jun 22nd 2008 8:26PM
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Whats up with this %#@!*@! posting system ':(
Spiza @ Jun 23rd 2008 6:48PM
Way to vote up all 4 of your posts gus.
Gus @ Jun 23rd 2008 11:12PM
FOR GODS SAKE SPIZA, I DID NOT VOTE MYSELF UP!!
What is it with you, are you so down on the world because your comments are so lacking in intelligence and wit that you have never had a highly ranked comment, come to think of it, after reading your comments, that explains it all.
Truth Teller @ Jun 22nd 2008 2:38PM
LMAO
Pathetic weak attempt at nothing but baiting, again.
*Howls of derisive laughter*
mntwister @ Jun 22nd 2008 3:34PM
You make some good points Nfinity and I agree with much of what you say, but I do disagree about digital downloads. They are compressed in picture and even more compressed in sound. They have been around for some time now and still people are buying billions of dollars of physical media every year and the market is not yet ready-download times are way too slow and people like owning their movie with the extras and having them on their shelves. That's how it has always been, I believe there will always be a physical media, at least for the next 5 years. I think blu-ray has a good chance, but not until our economy changes a bit and the prices of players and movies comes down. I agree with you about the blu-ray software, most people go to stores to get them and the peices there are very high. I hope that stores like Walmart and Best Buy, for the holidays, with incentives from the studios, will be able to reduce movie prices. From what I am hearing inside the industry, this is exactly what is going to happen.
Yes, I admit my hopes are way up for blu-ray. And no, I am not a PS3 fanboy or a blu-ray fanboy but a true movie lover who has always been into watching my movies with the highest quality sound and picture available. I am aware of the economy and that's probably one of the biggest reasons we are seeing very little increase in blu-ray player sales. But I try to remain optomistic because for me, I want to own my movie on a physical disc, with the extras, in 1080p and with lossless soundtracks because I am a die hard movie lover. But that's just me and I really believe that this holiday we WILL see players that are 2.0 capable for $199 on the holiday sales and probably alot of movies around 15.00 to 19.95. Being in the industry myself, I am somewhat aware of the push coming for blu-ray starting this fall and it rivals by far the push even for dvd after year 2. So while you may be all for digital downloads, I don't see why you are so against blu-ray. You have been so against it since the format war started, but hey, one format had to win the war, so let's hope for all new good technology to succeed. I sure don't want any more compression, which it has to be for at least 5 years until they can have the bandwidth and speed for downloading actual quality.
Gus @ Jun 22nd 2008 8:23PM
All the average "punter" knows about compression is, it's part of the combustion process in his RV.
Convenience is what it's all about, and thats the huge advantage downloads will/do have.
Come home, select what you want to watch and press a button, beautiful, no more late fees, no cues, no more scratched or dirty discs, no more, I'm to tired to drive to the store or whatever.
I have only just got into the download world myself, but I love it, if the wife or the kids want to watch something, it's a matter of quickly finding it and downloading it, and I get a buzz doing it.
If we absolutely love something we have downloaded, then maybe we would consider purchasing a disc, otherwise this new world of downloading is most certainly the future/present.
Gus @ Jun 22nd 2008 8:23PM
All the average "punter" knows about compression is, it's part of the combustion process in his RV.
Convenience is what it's all about, and thats the huge advantage downloads will/do have.
Come home, select what you want to watch and press a button, beautiful, no more late fees, no cues, no more scratched or dirty discs, no more, I'm to tired to drive to the store or whatever.
I have only just got into the download world myself, but I love it, if the wife or the kids want to watch something, it's a matter of quickly finding it and downloading it, and I get a buzz doing it.
If we absolutely love something we have downloaded, then maybe we would consider purchasing a disc, otherwise this new world of downloading is most certainly the future/present.
Jay @ Jun 23rd 2008 11:20AM
Trust me, your not alone. I would LOVE to be able to download high quality movies, but guess what. You can't and won't be able to for probably 5+ years. I am also a movie person that will not settle for a compressed picture and sound. There is nothing else that comes close to Bluray right now so that is what I use. The sound side of bluray is overlooked by so many it seems. What a huge difference there is between DVD audio and bluray audio.
Nfinity @ Jun 23rd 2008 12:45PM
Jon Said: "You can't and won't be able to for probably 5+ years."
What do you mean you can't and won't? It's already here! We are watching and downloading movies on several platforms from rent-to-own models. Granted it's still not perfect but that's why this will really take off in 2009 when all the quirks are ironed out. The whole notion that for some reason digital downloads will take 5+ years is pretty silly. I think you are just letting your desires and hopes that Blu-Ray will be the only way to distribute HD content get in the way.
Jon said: "I am also a movie person that will not settle for a compressed picture and sound."
Quite honestly Jon that's your problem and you are in such minority that for mainstream it's completely irrelevant. Laserdisc, Beta etc etc all have had that same mentality and what prevailed? Mainstream consumer cheaper and solid format. For 99% of the people XBL 720p HD movies look spectacular.. Sure if you compare the 1080p and this side by side you would see a difference but it's nowhere near that noticeable as some people like you would try to make it appear. Especially if you compare THAT to regular SD TV footage.. Whew, the thing is still HD and looks pretty nice.
But even then, In 2-3 years we will have full 1080p downloads. Hell they are doing now with Vudu, they won't have it in 2 years? With Vudu you have 1080p / DD+. And that's now. Imagine what will happen by end of 2009 for example.
Mr_Fizzlepop @ Jun 22nd 2008 4:28PM
I also agree there will always be physical media.
There will always be untrusting conspiracy people out there that will not store a "Personal Catalog List" of their titles somewhere for anyone to snoop at and for the companies servers to be lost and somehow lose their list.
There are a lot more people than there used to be willing to store 2 or 3 different copies of digital things they own so that in case something is stolen or destroyed they still have it, but the majority of people do not feel safe enough that digital content is reliably going to be there next week the way physical media will, even though physical media can be stolen or destroyed in it's own way just as easily.
This factor alone, forget Bandwidth which is a long ways off for a vast majority of the US alone, will keep physical media around for a long long time, and I'm not talking 5 or 10 years.
DrXym @ Jun 22nd 2008 5:45PM
Mr Fizzlepop, the main issue is that every single download service uses proprietary formats and software, is hobbled with DRM, and is restricted to a handful of devices. Not to mention that digital downloads cost almost the same as (and sometimes more than) DVD for a lower quality yet prevent you from lending, selling, or just managing your collection in a way you see fit. On top of that, the DRM means that if the store goes down, or if the company kills the service, you might find your collection rendered useless or locked to the devices you own. It's happened multiple times for music (e.g. Microsoft killed the PlaysForSure service in favour of Zune) and I see no reason to think the same won't happen with movies. Frankly you would have to be STUPID to build a collection in the current environment.
Just how do you backup your movies, and what happens if the store goes down?
Now if the a single DRM scheme were to become an industry standard and keys were managed by an independent provider, you could purchase and play your movies anywhere with confidence. Your purchases would safe if the store went down and you wouldn't be tied to devices associated with the store. THEN we'd be talking. That would be when things would take off since you could buy and play movies on any compliant device. An industry standard would also mean prices would be more competitive because there would be many stores (not just the likes of Apple. MS, Sony, Amazon with the deepest pockets), and prices would reflect that. It would be better yet if they did away with DRM entirely (like music is doing) and use passive techniques like watermarking to prevent piracy.
I'd add that rental and VOD are probably where digital downloads are relevant now. Issues such as DRM don't matter much if you're renting a movie, since who cares about how you're going to back up a rental. Digital is still far too complex for most users to figure out, but it has potential if it comes preconfigured on a set top box, possibly as part of a service. As for VOD, yes you'll probably find some which do allow you to store a "personal catalog list". Just don't assume your collection is permanent and you won't be disappointed. Again, this has happened with music and its likely to happen with video too. There will be plenty of instances where contracts expired or negotiations have gone bad and a whole swath of music is removed from the service.
As for bandwidth in general. I suggest that ISPs are starting to reintroduce caps because they see a future where they'll be flogging their own VOD / IPTV as part of your package and a bandwidth cap is a great way to discourage users from going elsewhere for that service.
It will be years and years before this is sorted out. And in the meantime you can buy DVDs or Blu Ray discs now and be assured your collection is safe for many years to come. Physical is just a safe bet until the digital crowd stop their turf wars and come up with a standard which is in all their interests.
DrXym @ Jun 22nd 2008 5:46PM
Mr Fizzlepop, the main issue is that every single download service uses proprietary formats and software, is hobbled with DRM, and is restricted to a handful of devices. Not to mention that digital downloads cost almost the same as (and sometimes more than) DVD for a lower quality yet prevent you from lending, selling, or just managing your collection in a way you see fit. On top of that, the DRM means that if the store goes down, or if the company kills the service, you might find your collection rendered useless or locked to the devices you own. It's happened multiple times for music (e.g. Microsoft killed the PlaysForSure service in favour of Zune) and I see no reason to think the same won't happen with movies. Frankly you would have to be STUPID to build a collection in the current environment.
Just how do you backup your movies, and what happens if the store goes down?
Now if the a single DRM scheme were to become an industry standard and keys were managed by an independent provider, you could purchase and play your movies anywhere with confidence. Your purchases would safe if the store went down and you wouldn't be tied to devices associated with the store. THEN we'd be talking. That would be when things would take off since you could buy and play movies on any compliant device. An industry standard would also mean prices would be more competitive because there would be many stores (not just the likes of Apple. MS, Sony, Amazon with the deepest pockets), and prices would reflect that. It would be better yet if they did away with DRM entirely (like music is doing) and use passive techniques like watermarking to prevent piracy.
I'd add that rental and VOD are probably where digital downloads are relevant now. Issues such as DRM don't matter much if you're renting a movie, since who cares about how you're going to back up a rental. Digital is still far too complex for most users to figure out, but it has potential if it comes preconfigured on a set top box, possibly as part of a service. As for VOD, yes you'll probably find some which do allow you to store a "personal catalog list". Just don't assume your collection is permanent and you won't be disappointed. Again, this has happened with music and its likely to happen with video too. There will be plenty of instances where contracts expired or negotiations have gone bad and a whole swath of music is removed from the service.
As for bandwidth in general. I suggest that ISPs are starting to reintroduce caps because they see a future where they'll be flogging their own VOD / IPTV as part of your package and a bandwidth cap is a great way to discourage users from going elsewhere for that service.
It will be years and years before this is sorted out. And in the meantime you can buy DVDs or Blu Ray discs now and be assured your collection is safe for many years to come. Physical is just a safe bet until the digital crowd stop their turf wars and come up with a standard which is in all their interests.
DrXym @ Jun 22nd 2008 5:47PM
Apologies for double post - god I wish they would sort this blog software so it shows posts after they are posted.
tifosiotaku @ Jun 22nd 2008 4:54PM
Mods, again, why isn't Truth Teller banned from the premises yet?
DrXym @ Jun 22nd 2008 5:53PM
Sorry baby, what is pathetic is watching you piss and moan about Blu Ray movies being for "ps3 kiddies", and then leaping on stories about B&W classics, Criterion movies etc. and pissing and moaning about them too. It's clearly beyond your mental capacity to acknowledge that Blu Ray has no shortage of releases now or coming shortly to cater for a wide variety of tastes. Grow up baby, your precious format lost.
Jim Mallory @ Jun 22nd 2008 6:16PM
As someone who used LaserDiscs in the 90s and paid anywhere from $40 - $200 per title, and paid anywhere from $500-$1000 for a good "mid-range" player, it just boggles the mind that anyone would consider $25-$30 per title and $500 for a "mid-range Profile 2.0" player expensive. You kids don't know how good you have it.
Truth Teller @ Jun 22nd 2008 7:49PM
Jim the point is that we have all moved on.
How things once were pre-DVD is irrelevant; the market now is very well used to inexpensive & good quality DVD.
Holding up how things once were before this state of affairs really is besides the point now.
Nfinity @ Jun 23rd 2008 5:08AM
Yeah Jim, but you werent paying the prices of other things like you do today.. let me guess a gallon of gas was like what.. 90 cents?
Yep.. oh wait, you are saying that we should be paying $6000 for a new laptop today because we were paying that much for the latest laptop 5-10 years ago?
Of course the price needs to go down. The technology is progressing and production and materials are much cheaper today.
Now if it costs BDA more then what we SHOULD be paying for this type of technology then I'm sorry but they are doing something wrong no? We've already witness that competing technology was cheaper to produce and more mainstream ready yet same quality. So why should we support paying these prices?
I'll tell you.. NO REASON AT ALL.
mntwister @ Jun 22nd 2008 11:46PM
Gus, if you are happy with your downloads I am happy for you and there is no reason for you and others not to love the convenience, I am not against downloads at all, I've never downloaded anything, I have always preferred CDs with uncompressed sound to mp3's and will prefer blu-rays to compressed downloaded movies (both sound and picture). From what I have learned, the compression on downloaded soundtracks is even more than the compression on dvd soundtracks, that's just not my thing. I prefer to move forward not backward and to hear the sound exactly as it is on the master at the studio, which is what the new blu-ray lossless formats offer. This is the first time we are able to see movies look like this and to hear the soundtracks in all their glory. I don't put anyone down for feeling differently, to each their own, but as a big movie nut all of my life, it is a dream come true to have movies on blu-ray in the quality we are getting. I have not watched a dvd in 4 months and I have over 1900 of them. I have a Denon 3930 dvd player that has the Realta chip so it's the best upscaler available now, but my interest in dvd movies has waned. Maybe if the Toshiba upscaler does the "magic" it is said to do (by Toshiba), I would go for that for the movies I own until I get them in high def, but I really question their statements on the matter until I see it myself projected and compared to the same movie on blu-ray.
I agree that many people could care less about uncompressed material, and that's fine...but I sure do. What about the extras? When you download a movie, are they all available..including the commentaries? What happens when you have filled your 500gb hard drive with films and supposing it fails and cannot be recovered (it happens alot, drives wear out or have damage or errors)? My movies will still be on my shelves ready to play, unless everyone plans to buy another 500gb drive to back them up. And still there are no guarantees. I have Dish Network and have 3 500gb hard drives, as they allow for external hard drives for archiving. Several months ago, one of them, with 84 high def movies from HDnet among others, failed. I sent it to Seagate and they are not able to get the material back. 84 movies taped over the course of a year gone. This is the same type of media that it is being suggested I store all of my taped content and download to. All storage media that has a drive or disc can fail at any time and the content may not be recovered.
As I said before, I am not arguing against downloads simply stating what I prefer and that I hope the blu-ray format succeeds because of the quality, which will take years to be available on fast downloads. Imagine downloading a 1080p movie with a lossless soundtrack right now. I think downloading has a long way to go, but it's just my opinion. If downloads are so easily available and "the thing", I find is difficult to believe then that the industry has sold billions of dollars of physical discsin cd's and dvd's last year, which are the actual industry figures. And those same new releases are available for download, but are still selling millions of copies on dvd, many times in their first few days of release.
I am sure one day I will get into downloads too, but for now, I love the extras, the lossless, the 1080p, the menus allowing me to select the language, soundtrack and other features and the movie sitting on my shelf and not on a hard drive that could fail.
mntwister @ Jun 23rd 2008 12:04AM
I agree with you Jim....Jim it's even less than that, the new Samsung blu-ray player, on sale for $349 at Walmart, is going to be updated via firmware for BD live (2.0) in the early fall, or late summer. That player might even hit $199 on Black Friday sales or sales close to the holidays because Samsung has announced another new player. The movies will certainly come down in price for the holidays, as I have contacts in the industry and know this for a fact, it will be part of the blu-ray push coming which is going to be unparalled in any promotion for a video format until now.
You are right, laserdisc players were expensive and the movies could cost anywhere from 39.95 to over $100..but the mainstream didn't buy into it. The fact that they are so used to paying 15.00 for a new release is making it hard to see the value in a blu-ray, but if they are spending thousands on their high def televisions, they are certainly going to want content that makes those televisions look their best. I am an optomist when it comes to blu-ray. It has much to offer. Can a download contain extras? Commentary? Can it connect to the internet for bd-live type extras? Can it provide 1080p? Can it provide lossless sound? I don't care what anyone else chooses to watch, that's exactly how I plan to watch my movies, thank you:-)
XDragon @ Jun 23rd 2008 6:47AM
I doubt we'll see big improvements until the week of Batman Begins and the week of Transformers. Even those weeks will just be spikes. That just proves that poeple are not replacing their collections unless its for a BIG title and I'd also expect to see a spike for Ironman because many people are buying Blu-Ray going forward. I wouldn't expect the percentages to be favourable for Blu-Ray for a long time but that doesn't mean its not doing well. I believe its performing as expected and thinngs will improve more significantly when player costs come down.
daaper @ Jun 23rd 2008 10:24AM
I guess I fail to see how this affects anyone but investors. If you want HD media, buy it and enjoy it. If not, don't. Does this kind of data really influence anyone's buying practices? Or is this just fodder for more "you're no match for my superior intellect" flame wars? Sure seems like the latter.
I have a PS3 (which I guess means I'm nothing but an idiot fanboy if you listen to some on here...) and I enjoy watching Blu-ray movies. I don't see why there is this need for some to defend this purchase decision day-in and day-out. My stance is that others on here can talk down about it all they want if it makes them feel better. I just assume that they've made a lot of bad life-decisions and they feel this is their one opportunity to feel superior to someone else. Continue trash-talking, while I enjoy my movies...
tifosiotaku @ Jun 23rd 2008 5:48PM
"The howls of derisive laughter just continue
(particularly @ tifosiotaku and his ludicrous weak little bitchy vendetta.......or whichever yellow infant it really is hiding behind another identity)."
The fact that my comment was highly ranked means that you should take the hint and crawl back under the rock you came from. Everyone else admitted defeat and moved on.
Once again, where are the damn mods? I was told that comments are moderated...
Spiza @ Jun 23rd 2008 6:50PM
Gus should now be known as "low self esteem artificial vote inflator" or "{L Seavi" for short.
Gus @ Jun 23rd 2008 11:13PM
We have had some classics here over time, H4idol and co, but you take the cake for being the biggest *anker to post here, congratulations.