BLU-RAY SALES THREAD: Put all sales figures and comments here! - Page 7  

Originally Posted by Neo1965

Instead of getting all worked up for no good reason, search the forum. There is a sticky at the top. AFI "100 Years, 100 Films" and Top 100 Adjusted Box Office broken down by format!

kosty and bferr did a lot of work to compile the list of movies from all the studios.

I don't know about other people, but I have no interest in getting Plan 9 on highdef (or movies that are ranked 2000+ on a list - probably unwatchable). From kosty's earlier post in the above thread, here's the breakdown as far as ALL worldwide known movies are distributed :

BD

Lions Gate 773
Sony Pictures 2219
Fox 5156
Buena Vista (Disney) 2233
MGM 4250
Warner 6405
Paramount 3673
Bandai 153
HBO 1027
New Line 753
CBS Television 2699
Vivid 684

TOTAL 30025

HD-DVD

Warner 6405
Paramount 3673
Universal 4252
Bandai 153
Weinstein 81
HBO 1027
New Line 753
Studio Canal 145
CBS Television 2699
Vivid 684
Wicked Pictures 423

TOTAL 20295

Here's the DVD's bought in 2006 broken down by studio :


There's a ton of information here, and if everyone just sat down and read them all, we would get rid of all the unnecessary bickering, and save our energy for the necessary bickering.

Adult Film Producers Choose HD DVD

By Jonathan Takiff
Philadelphia Daily News
01/24/07 9:08 AM PT

The high-definition DVD format received a boost recently when three adult film production companies -- Wicked Pictures, Digital Playground and High Def Home Entertainment -- announced that their first high-definition porn titles will be in HD DVD only. Another firm, Vivid Entertainment, said one of its titles would be available in both HD DVD and Blu-ray formats.

Originally Posted by phansson

Well, before you make a comment like that, I have the Sony BDP-S1 and a PS3. All hooked up to a Sony "Pearl" projector.

If you could tell the difference between the two of them on video/audio quality you are better than me. I can't tell the difference except when using the 1080p/24 output on the BDP-S1.

Don't kid yourself. The PS3, for a high definition disc player, is probably one of the best on the market. As far as loading times, it pretty much blows any stand alone player out of the water. Mine has never froze up(Sony does on SD occasionally), no audio sync problems (Toshiba HD-A1 did this constantly).

I think the PS3 is the best "value" on the market today. Including all Blu Ray players and any HD DVD player. For you to make that comment above makes me believe you have never seen a PS3 in action other than a store display.

Originally Posted by briankmonkey

what was that HD-DVD sarcastic chant "just wait", lol quite a role reversal now.

Originally Posted by LAGOSIAN

No, HD DVD has been beating Blu-ray for 7 months straight in software and sales; to suddenly start judging the first 3 weeks of sales in the new year as Blu-ray is PULLING AWAY???
I'm sorry but that is a mathematical impossibility. We are supposed to suddenly forget 7 months of headway because BR has now started to do better in 3 weeks? That is nonsensical and irrational statistics. We wait another 7 full months, tally the numbers OF MOVIES SOLD (NOT RELEASED) during the combined 14 month span, and then we get a more realistic number. That's common sense, and the proper way to measure averages.

Originally Posted by Goldblum

Not started to do better. Started to do better than HD-DVD. There's a big difference.

Originally Posted by krinkle

DOH! Looks like it gets worse every day for HD-DVD.

number in top 10000



titles available to purchase


salesrank of top 10



Its never too late for an HD-DVD fan to make the smart choice and upgrade to a PS3 for only $499.

Originally Posted by Urza

Im sure this was posted a million times, but why do BD folks LOVE dvdwars all of a sudden? Heck even my close personal friend use to rag me over that site, saying how stupid and wrong it was. Now, he seems to like it pfffft!

Originally Posted by LAGOSIAN

You are missing 2 more Adult movie studios that are EXCLUSIVE to HD DVD that are not on your list=

1) High Def Home Entertainment &

2) Digital Playground

What does the number come up to now?

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/...e-HD-DVD.xhtml



By the way, you do realize that your graph is for DVD sales not High Def right?

Originally Posted by Urza

Im sure this was posted a million times, but why do BD folks LOVE dvdwars all of a sudden? Heck even my close personal friend use to rag me over that site, saying how stupid and wrong it was. Now, he seems to like it pfffft!

Blu-ray is PULLING AWAY???

Originally Posted by plazman

The most important measure IMO that tells us if one format is losing is to see how same titles available for both formats on the same date.

Originally Posted by thebland

Perhaps,

But that would only be 1 in 10 releases. HD DVD has little content.

Imagine the one sided sales figures when Casino Royal, Cars, and Pirates hit the scene and Hd DVD has releases like Harry & the Hendersons.....

Originally Posted by thebland

Perhaps,

But that would only be 1 in 10 releases. HD DVD has little content.

Imagine the one sided sales figures when Casino Royale, Cars, and Pirates hit the scene and Hd DVD has releases like Harry & the Hendersons.....

Originally Posted by thebland

Imagine the one sided sales figures when Casino Royal, Cars, and Pirates hit the scene and Hd DVD has releases like Harry & the Hendersons.....

Originally Posted by eightninesuited

That is not necessarily so. Clerks2 did really well on Amazon's ranking. But do you for one second think it would have been as high if other titles were being released on HD DVD that time? Money gets focused there - on 1 or 2 titles.

For example, I placed an order on Amazon for Departed, Open Season, Saw III, and AVP. I really wanted Guardian but maybe later. I already spent more than I planned to. Had the Blu-ray releases been reduced I would have picked it up.

Originally Posted by 1loudsuv

but like beatboy and thebland ( who obviously use the excuse of have owned in the past an hd-dvd player to bash hd-dvd) ill have a picture of my ps3 and be able to bash the ps3 since i will own it.

Originally Posted by wreckshop

If you're going to troll the BD forums, at least try to structure your sentence in a somewhat coherent form so it is easier for us to comprehend.

Oh and by the way, your sig "WITHOUT PROOF YOUR FUD MEANS NOTHING" is redundant. if FUD was backed by proof, it wouldnt be FUD, it would be a fact.

Originally Posted by plazman

Excellent point as well! That is true. Fewer titles means there is more disposable income chasing fewer choices

OTOH, what happens when we get a slew of top rated games on the PS3? Would we have significant switching from movies to games, or will we be stuck with a significant number of PS3 consoles where movies crowd out games. Wouldn't that lower the expected profits from each console sold for Sony?

Whereas, it is quite clear that no one can possibly purchase the xbox 360 as a video player alone since the Tosh A-2 is by far the better value as an HD DVD player. The PS3 is the best value for a BD player. So to me it isn't clear IF Sony can sustain the PS3 if millions are being bought to play movies and where movies purchases are crowding out games! It really is a trade off for Sony.

It'll be interesting to see how the economics of this plays out. I'd expect the full fall out of a success or failure of their strategy to be clear sometime by Q3 of this year. JMHO. Clearly, MSFT took the low risk approach and even in the best case scenario it provides MSFT with a lot more leverage to progress their console v. Sony.

Originally Posted by plazman

Excellent point as well! That is true. Fewer titles means there is more disposable income chasing fewer choices

OTOH, what happens when we get a slew of top rated games on the PS3? Would we have significant switching from movies to games, or will we be stuck with a significant number of PS3 consoles where movies crowd out games. Wouldn't that lower the expected profits from each console sold for Sony?

Whereas, it is quite clear that no one can possibly purchase the xbox 360 as a video player alone since the Tosh A-2 is by far the better value as an HD DVD player. The PS3 is the best value for a BD player. So to me it isn't clear IF Sony can sustain the PS3 if millions are being bought to play movies and where movies purchases are crowding out games! It really is a trade off for Sony.

It'll be interesting to see how the economics of this plays out. I'd expect the full fall out of a success or failure of their strategy to be clear sometime by Q3 of this year. JMHO. Clearly, MSFT took the low risk approach and even in the best case scenario it provides MSFT with a lot more leverage to progress their console v. Sony.

* It also does not help the HD DVD cause on dvdwars when 2 of their current top 10 titles - Clerks II and Lucky # Slevin are 4-6 weeks backordered! These are also two of the more recent titles, so to me it looks like dvdwars right now is underestimating the overall demand for HD DVD. Not enough new content and couple of the more recent releases are out of stock.

Originally Posted by xbdestroya

Gamers have bought movies in the past, and will continue to do so in the future. I'm not sure I understand why games and film are viewed as mutually exclusive by so many here on the forums. When there's a movie one wants, one gets it. When there's a game one wants, one gets it. It's the 'maybe' situations such as Guardian where perhaps some money will be left on the table. But I know of few in the PS3 demographic that would be any less excited for Casino Royale in HD than for upcoming game classic MGS4.

Originally Posted by plazman

OTOH, what happens when we get a slew of top rated games on the PS3?

Originally Posted by xbdestroya

Gamers have bought movies in the past, and will continue to do so in the future. I'm not sure I understand why games and film are viewed as mutually exclusive by so many here on the forums. When there's a movie one wants, one gets it. When there's a game one wants, one gets it. It's the 'maybe' situations such as Guardian where perhaps some money will be left on the table. But I know of few in the PS3 demographic that would be any less excited for Casino Royale in HD than for upcoming game classic MGS4.

Originally Posted by plazman

They are NOT mutually exclusive. But people live on a budget and if I buy more of one product, I need to buy less of another. Perhaps people budget for entertainment and that includes movie disks and going to the movies and eating out and buying games etc. So, there has to be some sort of substitution effect going on. Just basic common sense!