We all knew the
Warner announcement would do a lot of damage, and now the statistics to back up those predictions are here. According to the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales numbers for last week, the top 10 high-definition disc sellers are all Blu-ray Disc releases. More importantly, net HD DVD sales constituted only 15% of HD disc sales last week and the top HD DVD seller, "The Kingdom," sold a meagre 10% of what the top Blu-ray Disc release, "3:10 to Yuma", managed to sell. Of course, this can actually be seen as a success for HD DVD. The format was pronounced dead by many, and yet it’s still alive and kicking.
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