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Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending November 4th, 2007
So much for that trend -- for a few weeks there is looked like the HD DVD camp was making up lost ground on Blu-ray and even got within one percent of beating them. But, according to this weeks Nielsen VideoScan numbers, courtesy of Home Media Magazine, Blu-ray took the lion's share of the HD movie sales again this week with a 71% to 29% split (2.45:1). It appears that the Transformers' effect wasn't enough to hold off Spidey 3, despite the disappointing sales. What's really interesting is that there is only one HD DVD title in the top ten this week, and to add insult to injury, four of the top ten titles are also available on HD DVD, but didn't sell well enough to make the list. Keep in mind that these numbers are from last week, so Disney's two blockbusters aren't included and HD DVD's highly successful sale of the HD-A2 was too late in the week to impact the results, as well. The other title not included that we expect to hit the top ten next week is I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, but we don't think it will be any match for Disney's rat. Spider-Man 3 BD 100.00 Spider-Man: The High Definition Trilogy BD 71.95 Transformers HD 31.42 Meet the Robinsons BD 8.82 300 BD 6.56 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer BD 5.03 License to Wed BD 4.24 The Shining BD 4.11 Mr. Brooks BD 4.03 2001: A Space Odyssey BD 3.88
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending October 28th, 2007
Transformers stays on top again in this week's installment of the Nielsen VideoScan report courtesy of Home Media Magazine. Disney's Meet the Robinsons and Fox's Mr. Brooks were no match for it, even on it's second week. This puts the two formats neck and neck at 55/45, for the second week in a row. Of course this will have to go on for longer than that if they want to affect they year to date, which only changed 2% over the past two weeks and is now at 64/36. We can only imagine that Warner is a little disappointed that none of their new movies hit the top ten this week, but they continue to enjoy success with the regulars on the list like 300. At this point the real question is how will Spider-Man 3 fair next week against Transformers in it's third week and what kind of impact will the recent flood of HD DVD players have on the market. Sure, spidy did better in the box office, but sales will be split with the box set. Transformers HD DVD 100.00 Heroes Season 1 HD DVD 47.91 Meet the Robinsons BD 44.88 Mr. Brooks BD 14.41 Hostel Part II BD 13.65 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest BD 13.01 300 HD 12.05 Pirates of the Cari bean Curse of the Black Pearl BD 11.61 300 BD 11.26 Planet Earth HD 11.22
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending October 21st, 2007
As expected, Transformers is at the top this week on the Nielsen VideoScan charts courtesy of Home Media Magazine. What some didn't expect is for Blu-ray to continue to outsell HD DVD overall, despite the fact Blu-ray didn't have any notable titles that week. But wait you ask, didn't Transformers sell more copies than any other movie? Well, that's where it gets interesting, while Paramount claims they sold 190k copies, Nielsen only counted 115k. Some might say that's because they don't count Wal-Mart, and while that could be the case, the Wal-Mart near our house still doesn't carry either format. Judging by the titles in the list and how the list compares to last week's, we'd say that Blu-ray's buy one get one free deal went pretty well and we really can't wait to see what the HD DVD camp is willing to do to offset Spiderman 3 in a few weeks -- but we'd bet no matter what they do, it'll be good for the consumer. Transformers 100 Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest 9.47 Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl 9.12 Fatastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer 5.47 Apocalypto 5.02 Deja Vu 3.71 The Prestige 3.60 Wild Hogs 3.53 The Reaping BR 3.42 300 BR 3.37 [Via AVSForum]
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending October 14th, 2007
Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer is once again the top title this week on the Nielsen VideoScan charts courtesy of Home Media Magazine. There are a lot of changes in this week's list of top ten titles, as Knocked Up falls to six, from two, and new release Evan Almighty rises to number four. As we'd expect, most of the titles to rise to the top are new releases, but a few regulars for Blu-ray seem to keep up their steam, including 300 and Casino Royale. For the second week in a row, Blu-ray wides its lead (now 2.4:1 for the week), but we all expect that to change next week when the Transformers numbers hit, despite all of Blu-ray's two-for-one promotions. Fantastic Four 100.00 Surf's Up BD 66.99 28 Weeks Later BD 63.66 Evan Almighty HD 45.62 300 BD 37.58 Knocked Up HD 27.03 Reign over Me 24.10 28 Days Later BD 23.13 Casino Royale BD 21.96 Troy DC BD 19.64 [Via AVSForum]
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending October 7th, 2007
This is the first ever weekly installment of our synopsis of the Neilson VideoScan High-Def Market share report courtesy of Home Media Magazine. This will be out every Friday as soon as the results are released, and be very similar to our weekly HD releases post on Mondays. Ohh, and thanks Dave for the inspiration. The biggest title this week is Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer followed by Knocked Up which was 1st last week. Blu-ray pushes back to a 2:1 lead this week after giving a little back to HD DVD last week (1.2:1), while year to date and since inception remain the same. Looking forward, it'll be much of the same next week, as there weren't any big titles this week, but we look forward to the week after when HD DVD's revenge will arrive in the way of Transformers, the biggest Paramount exclusive yet to hit the street. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer 100 Knocked Up 21.11 300 BR 13.91 Bram Stoker's Dracula 10.87 Top Gun 9.23 300 HD 8.19 Troy: Director's Cut BR 8.01 Halloween 7.74 Planet Earth: The Complete Series BR 6.88 Next 5.62 [Via AVSForum]
