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Originally Posted by Daze
I read that HD-DVD got crushed over the last week including Black Friday.
28% to Blu-rays 72%
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Its worth doing some research into the numbers that you read instead of just taking them for face value
Of that 72%, the #2 highest "sold" title was the 11-month-old "Open Season" which was a freebie thrown in with the Playstation 3 for that week - it counted as a "sale" because it was given away with the PS3 by the retailer Best Buy, therefore they rank it as a sold title. Also, the other highest selling titles were Fox and Disney blockbusters which were exclusive to BD; therefore this is not a good benchmark of how well the format is doing vs HD DVD because it is comparing apples to oranges. If you look at actual titles that debuted on BOTH formats, such as Ocean's Thirteen, the numbers were much closer. Basically you had the new Die Hard going up against a $160 Star Trek TV boxset - of course Die Hard would sell better for that week.