This week's Nielsen VideoScan numbers are pretty late. This was mostly because last week's Home Media Magazine was delayed because of the Home Media Expo, which completly threw us off. The other thing that threw us off this week was the fact that this week's edtition of HMM didn't inlcude a top 20 Blu-ray title chart. This really only leaves us the market share to discuss which is understandably down. The fact that both DVD and Blu-ray sales were down that week is no surprise since there just weren't that many new releases and the ones that were released weren't anything to call home about. We expect next this week's numbers to be delayed as well because of the 4th of July. When the charts do finally come out there should be more to talk about though, as we will be interested to see how well 10,000 BC does against DVD, as well as The Spiderwick Chronicles. Luckily the month of June is behind us and July looks to be a fun ride, so we can't wait to see if Blu-ray manages to pick up any speed before the holiday season in the coming months.

Again on this week's Nielsen VideoScan chart courtesy of Home Media Magazine, we get exposed for our inability to make accurate predictions as we stated last week that we expected half of the DVD top 20 to not be available on Blu-ray. With some help from Paramount for the first time ever only five DVD exclusives made the top 20. The interesting thing is that four of those are Paramount titles, with the last being from Sony. This really has us scratching our head as Sony is the last studio we'd expect to still be releasing DVD exclusives. Either way, Blu-ray managed to not drop as much as DVD this week as Semi-Pro toped both charts. But last week's winner wasn't far behind as many Blu-ray owners are not hesitating to pick up Rambo -- we can't say we blame them. Paramount's long awaited titles didn't to too bad either, taking the number four and five spots on the chart and accounting for almost 50 percent of the title's overall sales. Next week we expect both DVD and Blu-ray to be up as Jumper is sure to move the needle, and we'll be waiting to see if it can muster more than 12 percent of the share away from DVD like Rambo did its first week out.

Boy did we not see this one coming, as not only did Blu-ray make us look like an idiot when we predicted last week that "there is no way Blu-ray can sustain these numbers with only Rambo," but Blu set a personal best at 10 percent of the market on this week's Nielsen VideoScan charts courtesy of Home Media Magazine. Rambo really lead the way for Blu taking 12 percent of the titles sales from DVD, this is twice the share that the Blu version of National Treasure: Book of Secrets was able to muster last week. At the same time Rambo outsold Book of Secrets easily on Blu, while Rambo wasn't able to take the number one spot on the DVD charts. Next week is a big week for Blu-ray as there was a record number of releases, including many catalog titles that we expect to sell well, in addition there are a few new-er releases, that should help out. We're not sure if Blu-ray will take more than 10 percent of the market though, as we expect the trend of half of the top 20 DVDs to continue to not be available on Blu-ray for the foreseeable future.

Oh what a difference a new release makes to the Nielsen VideoScan charts courtesy of Home Media Magazine. The National Treasure series helped excel Blu to a 7% share this week, which is the second highest we've seen since HMM started tracking Blu-ray's share compared to DVD. The Nic Cage movies took all three of the top spots on the Blu-ray chart, leaving every other title in the dust by a large margin. But while Book of Secrets may have outsold any other Blu-ray title by almost 4 to 1, it only managed a 6.98% share of the overall title's sales when compared to DVD. Although Blu-ray had a great week this week with a 54.94% increase over last, we still can't help but to harp on the fact that 10 of the top 20 DVD titles aren't available on Blu. The market share per title chart is back this week (after the jump) and it's very obvious that Blu makes up for not having the same new releases by selling catalog titles like V for Vendetta and Twister, with the number one title on both the DVD and the Blu-ray top 20, is the number 20th in regards to Blu-ray market share. As for next week, there is no way Blu-ray can sustain these numbers with only Rambo, but the week after should be really interesting considering how many movies are due to be released on Blu on the same day.

Two new releases make it to the top of this week's Nielsen VideoScan chart courtesy of Home Media Magazine. But even though Blu-ray sales were up 21.71% this week over last, it wasn't enough to help Blu-ray obtain more than 5 percent of the top 20 sales. This, like the past few weeks, has mostly been because half of the DVD top 20, still aren't available on Blu-ray. The big titles on DVD that are missing this week, are the first three Indiana Jones movies, which are evidently very popular thanks to the fourth movie hitting theaters. We can't wait to see how -- or if -- the market share changes with Paramount Blu-ray titles coming out in the coming weeks, and finally Universal in July. Of course that still leaves Weinstein exclusively releasing on DVD, but this only accounts for one of the top 20 DVDs this week. For whatever reason HMM didn't have its new market share per title chart in this week's edition, but we sure to hope it's there next week when the biggest day and date title for Blu-ray in some time hits the streets in the way of National Treasure: Book of Secrets.

Sorry we're a little late on this week's Nielsen VideoScan numbers courtesy of Home Media Magazine, as again this week Blu-ray's market share is pretty low. It's not too hard to figure out how though, as 11 out of the top 20 DVDs for the same week aren't available on Blu-ray. While Alvin, The Water Horse and There Will be Blood rule DVD, the long legged I Am Legend again takes the number one spot on the charts -- after giving Alvin a turn last week. To put things into perspective, I Am Legend only sold 20% as many copies as Alvin on DVD. The night crawler movie didn't do too bad on HD DVD either, as it easily outsold any other HD DVD title by almost 9:1 and has us scratching our head that it didn't take the number 10 spot on the High-Def Sellers chart. Blu-ray should fare better next week, as DVD doesn't have as much of an advantage in the exclusives department, and Blu has a few titles we expect to do well like the latest AVP.