Quote Originally Posted by Sir Terrence the Terrible
Sales for this week were 68-32% in Bluray's favor.

Personally I don't think the Paramount?Dreamworks deal is going to have the effect that the HD DVD PG expects. All one has to do is look at Universal HDM performance over the last 15 months or so. The inablility to release any of Spielbergs movies has kept their sales below that of all the other studios. Universal is not doing well at all in their catalog sales, and seems to only get traction with date and day releases with the DVD. Not one of Universal titles were in the top ten sales tier this week on NDP. And neither was any titles from Paramount as well

Paramount cannot release any Amblin picture titles, and no Spielberg titles. These would be the only catalog titles that would do exceptionally well at this point in the formats history. Top Gun which is supposed to be a pretty hot title for release this week, finished behind the Bluray version of 300 which has now sold 250k copies on bluray only. Small change compared to the DVD which sold millions, but a big deal for both of the new formats.
Personally, I tend to agree with Sir T.'s assessment of the studio's effect on the overall picture. I'm leaning toward going BlueRay as I find increasingly fewer HD-DVD titles that pique my interest.

I do however have a question (one of many). If, as stated on a previous thread, Wal-Mart and the online concerns don't report sales figures, doesn't this significantly skew any data? It seems to me that these venues would be more appealing to low dollar and price-point conscious consumers and might, if only slightly, even the sales rates a bit between the formats and their players. I'm thinking particularly of the XBOX 360 and the add-on. Thoughts?

Hey T., any shortcomings of the PS3 that I need to be aware of?