HD DVD won? Blu-ray sales lagging behind massively

HD DVD sales that have been slowly growing faster than Blu-ray in the last 3 or 4 months have in the post-Christmas sales seen a huge acceleration.

At the moment on Amazon this is how the top 25 film (DVD) sales look:

DVD is winning with 15 titles.
HD DVD is second with 9 titles in the top 25.
Blu-ray is last with only a single title in the top 25.

HD DVD is sat on the top four spots, while the highest ranking Blu-ray title is only at number 19.

Expanding to the top 50, and we find another 7 HD DVD titles, and only 3 Blu-ray titles.

4 comments

Comment from: Ransom [Visitor]
The discrepancy here is interesting. Every retailer I look inside, the HD DVD range is half the size of the Blu-ray section or less.
29th December 2007 @ 03:28
Comment from: Paul Smith [Member] · http://www.dasmirnov.net/
Retailers were sold on the fact that the PS3 was going to make Blu-ray the format automatically by giving it an installed base of millions, the trouble is that Blu-ray attachment rates are minuscule and that the PS3 is the slowest selling current-gen console.

Paramount and DreamWorks dropping support for Blu-ray was really the first nail in the coffin, hopefully Warner will drop Blu-ray support in a few months, and that will seriously alter the ground in the retail space.
29th December 2007 @ 14:49
Comment from: Ransom [Visitor]
Paul, I just checked the Amazon bestseller's list. There are no HD DVD titles on there, and about nine Blu-ray ones.
7th January 2008 @ 01:36
Comment from: Paul Smith [Member] · http://www.dasmirnov.net/
Amazon have a lot of Blu-ray titles in a multi-buy offer at the moment. Plus I'd expect Warner's announcement to shift to Blu-ray exclusively this year (d'oh) had a large effect on HD DVD sales.
7th January 2008 @ 01:39

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