This morning , we write about a stat that Europe ’s HD - videodisk title sales had spike and surpassed Blu - ray sales event . That ’s wrong . That author actually used US information , so weupdated our post . But what about that US ear ? It did n’t have anything to do , really , with the fact that HD - DVD has over 100k non - Xbox players in the field . That would have revealed itself with a more gradual climb in the charts .
https://gizmodo.com/hd-format-war-limps-on-hd-dvd-up-in-europe-updated-252977
Apparently , the spike occurs the same day that HD - videodisc fanboys at AVSForum , the AV fancier site , had organized an aggregated bargain of HD - videodisk titles . For an unripened format , even a few individuals can make a difference , if only on a solar day .
Thispostlays down their gameplan for the buy on April 15th , the one twelvemonth anniversary of HD - DVD ’s launch :
The idea is to show support for HD DVD by buy movie on a specific day . There is no good means to show supporting for HD DVD than by backing it financially . If there is a warm demand for HD DVD software , then hopefully Blu - ray only studios will at least go neutral .
A calendar month by and by , over 350 members were signed up on AVSForums , but not alone . Countless other HD videodisk fanboys on other sites joined in . And on that day , many people grab anywhere from 2 to a dozen disk , sometimes more — Likely not more than 10,000 copy , by my surmisal . But that ’s a significant amount on a individual twenty-four hours for a data formatting that has less that a million title sold in totality . They ’d even managed to get the random , but beautiful BBC infotainment Planet Earth box go under up into the top 5 sale for movies on Amazon , which member talked about as a first for any HD phonograph record . ( Casino Royale on Blu - ray only reached # 6 ) .
And as you’re able to see , HD - DVD ’s sales event rank break out of its 2d grade statute title sales rank on Amazon , if only for a solar day .
Funny enough , on the other side of the fence , on AVSforum ’s Blu - electron beam Fanboys , as well as those onPS3 forumsareplanning a retaliatory contemporise buy soon .
One thing ’s for sure in the data formatting war . HD - DVD ’s fanboys are far more original and spirited .
April 15th – Buy HD DVDs from Amazon Day![AVS Forums , thanks Keith ! ]
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