For the week ending January 13th, the first full week following Warner's decision to go Blu-ray exclusive, the Blu-ray camp had its most dominating disc sales week.
Since the beginning of 2007 Blu-ray has outsold HD DVD by an average of nearly 2:1 but the week in question saw the gap get even further. Blu-ray took a dominating 85 percent share of all HD discs sold.
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Take note of Toshiba's very own pie chart:
Standalone Market Share for the entire 2007
Toshiba/HD DVD - 49.3%
BluRay or Dual Format from other brands - 50.7%
This means that BluRay standalone sales were significantly bigger over the crucial 4th quarter of 2007. This continued into the 1st 2 weeks of 2008.
According to the NPD Group BluRay got 60% of standalone sales for the month of December 2007.
Remember that the PS3 is not included in these numbers as eatsushi pointed out earlier.
interesting posts by both, i swear eatsushi and error5 should be renamed lamb nTunaFish as you guys often complement one another pretty well. haha im kidding.
if blu-ray SA sales continue like this given the underpriced HD-DVD players then its only a matter of time before retailers pull the underselling product. OR a more realistic scenario, they (retailers) simply don't RESTOCK their inventory. thus when we see this occur there will be a cutback in production from tosh. and an ultimate departure from the HD market. well actually not, im sure tosh. will make a very nice Blu-ray player ;)
Another thing - I think hughjars mis-read his article.
The article didn't say that HD DVD had 64% of the standalone market.
It says:
Quote:Toshiba has 64% more units than all Blu-ray players combined.
64% more units is not the same as 64% of market share.
PLUS the 64% figure covers only Q1 to Q3 of 2007. It disregards the crucial 4th quarter which, as demonstrated above and proven by Toshiba's own pie chart, was dominated by BluRay standalone sales.
Quote:Toshiba accounted for nearly 64 percent more than all available Blu-ray brands combined between Q1 and Q3 ?07.
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Quote: i swear eatsushi and error5 should be renamed lamb nTunaFish
Originally posted by hughjars: If things really were as they say (typically) they'd be showing stats/graphs for several months (at least a quarter).
Well error5's post above shows Toshiba's own pie chart for the whole year of 2007. HD DVD standalones had 49.3% marketshare from Toshiba's own data.
I'll look for the NPD data for Q4 of 2007 but will you settle for the month of December of 2007? It's in error5's post above too:
So for the busiest shopping month of the year, BluRay standalones outsold HD DVD by 60% to 40% (weeks ending 12/8 to 12/29 per NPD). Remember the PS3 numbers were not included in this.
Well apparently the war is officially over although i have not read the new article i am guessing if these are the numbers in January then blu-ray would have won the war.
