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By Susanne Ault -- Video Business, 9/5/2007
SEPT. 5 | DENVERBlu-ray Disc set-top players within the last 12 weeks have begun out-selling HD DVD set-top players, according to recent NPD Group research cited by Sony Electronics.
Sony touted the reversal of HD DVD's long-running stand-alone dominance during its Wednesday press conference at CEDIA.
Sony VP Chris Fawcett declined to provide exact market share percentages of the two sides.
He said the change occurred mostly due to the introduction of Sony's $499 player.
Alternatively it's possible they used sold to retailers not sold to customers numbers.
Which would make some sense if you consider the rollout of the A3 may have ment no A2 orders, though personally I doubt they'd be silly enough to use such figures.
Dude, did you just wake up? It's REVENUE, and Talkstr8 already mentioned this. Ever wonder why the Sony rep declines to show the figures? They actually DECLINE if you can believe that.
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By Susanne Ault -- Video Business, 9/5/2007
SEPT. 5 | DENVERBlu-ray Disc set-top players within the last 12 weeks have begun out-selling HD DVD set-top players, according to recent NPD Group research cited by Sony Electronics.
Sony touted the reversal of HD DVD's long-running stand-alone dominance during its Wednesday press conference at CEDIA.
Sony VP Chris Fawcett declined to provide exact market share percentages of the two sides.
He said the change occurred mostly due to the introduction of Sony's $499 player.
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Originally Posted by Urza /forum/post/11535802
Dude, did you just wake up? It's REVENUE, and Talkstr8 already mentioned this. Ever wonder why the Sony rep declines to show the figures? They actually DECLINE if you can believe that.
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Originally Posted by Urza /forum/post/11535802
Dude, did you just wake up? It's REVENUE, and Talkstr8 already mentioned this. Ever wonder why the Sony rep declines to show the figures? They actually DECLINE if you can believe that.
Note the slide said BD leads both market share value (revenue) & units
Even parity on units would be surprising, but it might be simply a seesaw battle that keeps changing hands, so the data could be just shortly after the S300 launched and before Toshiba had to resume the HD-A2 sale.
The 63% : 30% was clearly revenue, not units. But $499/$230 almost looks like 63/30 doesn't it?
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, rhetorical or serious, both Toshiba and Sony are using NPD numbers, the difference is that recently Sony has been using dollar share instead of unit share to say they are winning. The problem is that if you spend $1,000 or $100 on a player, you're still only buying one player, you're not outselling the competition 10:1.
That should be your #1 signal that this is just smoke-and-mirrors PR B.S. If there was actual data, they'd quote it. Again and again.
BD stand-alones are not outselling HD DVD stand-alones. Plain and simple. If Sony feels otherwise, they can feel free to prove it. That means actual data.
I don't dispute the 2:1 ratio because it is backed up by pretty reasonable stats. This, however, is crap.
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Originally Posted by Neo1965 /forum/post/11535894
This is the original quote :
Note the slide said BD leads both market share value (revenue) & units
Even parity on units would be surprising, but it might be simply a seesaw battle that keeps changing hands, so the data could be just shortly after the S300 launched and before Toshiba had to resume the HD-A2 sale.
The 63% : 30% was clearly revenue, not units. But $499/$230 almost looks like 63/30 doesn't it?
Spidersense is tingling, they don't actually say that's standalone market share, just player, and possibly PS3 is included.
Edit: Just as a note, 99% of the time no company will actually flat out lie, but they will exclude and/or distort context to create the perception that something is not what it truly is. Talking players without saying standalone only then including the PS3 sales and highlighting the $499 player alters the perception of what the numbers mean without justifying them or giving proper context.
The chart says CE players. If PS3 was included, the ratio would be 90:10 (something like that).
Don't forget there was a lull when the HD-A2 sale stopped and the S300 was introduced, the HD-A2 sale resumed suddenly when the sales dried up after the sale ended. That was also the time when the reports of S300 selling in B&M started. The next NPD data could show the lead change again, but they look like it's closer than most assumed (and this is with
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