HD DVD gain in market share after huge drop

Just adding the following bit of news 01-Feb-2008:

Despite recent rumours by sony fanboys that circuit city is dumping HD DVD & are having a clearance sale on HD DVD players. I have found ONLY ONE positive article clarifying Circuit City's position: http://www.dealerscope.com/story/story.bsp?sid=90171&var=story

As the above article wont be making headlines i decided to post it.

lets emphasize on the last bit in the article:
"Circuit City also told the site that sales, following the price cuts, have been strong, and that the chain plans to remain “platform agnostic.” "



And lets not forget that the above results DO NOT include online sales from Amazon, where the HD DVD Player is ranked number 1 & number 2 on Amazon.com DVD players Sales Rank & has been since December 2007.
It's currently Number 1 on Amazon.co.uk and Play.com.

im sure the results after week 4 will be even larger gains for HD DVD in hardware and in software.

And another thing I see is a lot of constant negative articles regarding HD DVD (type in HD DVD in google and then the news options to see for yourself), the same old stories appearing as 1 hour ago news from India, Ireland, to USA and despite that, figures released and Not released (online retailers etc) clearly show support for HD DVD despite all this negative bashing and 2 studio support. Nobody is giving HD DVD a fair chance to compete. If Sony does win this war it will be on a negative publicity campaign against HD DVD. If you start to repeat something a million times people will start to believe it.

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[Post edited by mak247 on Feb 1, 2008 - CST 10:18 AM]

thats quite an amazing feat. considering HD DVD only has something like 25% of the major studios supporting them. Perhaps there is something to this HD DVD technology after all?

How do 3D Glasses tie into this story? Either way that's awesome!

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How do 3D Glasses tie into this story?

A symbol of both formats (red and blue)

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[Post edited by Henning on Jan 29, 2008 - CST 4:49 AM]

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And lets not forget that the above results DO NOT include online sales from Amazon

I'm afraid you are mistaken or your information might be out of date: In 2007, NPD added amazon.com to its list of retailers (and lost Toys R Us).

Link: gamedaily

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[Post edited by Grubert on Jan 29, 2008 - CST 5:00 AM]

It was made clear on January 24th that "NPD's numbers do not include online sales from the likes of Amazon"

You may refer to gaming console data.

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A symbol of both formats (red and blue)

How did I not get that?

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It was made clear on January 24th that "NPD's numbers do not include online sales from the likes of Amazon"

That came from betanews' Nate Mook, right? Well I'll just say that you might want to verify it with a second source.

Yes, it was from BetaNews.

The reason I find it very creditable is that the source for the article is Stephen Baker, vice president of NPD.
Full Article

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By Nate Mook, BetaNews

That's the article source, as the author's name and company is listed at the top of the page. If it is implied that the NPD numbers don't reflect industry market share, then the numbers are useless, their reputation is down the drain, and all the clients that spend the big bucks for timely NPD figures should be going elsewhere or risk loss of revenue themselves due to using these faulty figures in helping to formulate their marketing strategies.

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[Post edited by Skyhawk on Jan 29, 2008 - CST 6:29 AM]