Well the sales figures are in for disc sales and as I predicted, there was no sales spike for HD-DVD. BR held strong (stronger than normal, even) with 68%. That's two weeks into the big Paramount announcement. Both weeks saw slightly higher than normal market share for BR. To be honest, I'm surprised at how strongly BR kept (or rather improved) its lead in the past two weeks. I expected that lead to slip to around 62%, even if just temporarily. I sure didn't expect it to go *up.*
Does this mean that Paramount's decision won't have any effect down the road? No, not necessarily, though I don't think it will have a big effect, or at least not nearly as much as the HD camp seems to think. But since the HD-DVD crowd was bragging about a spike or surge over the past couple of weeks it's relevant in how it shows that, once again, they were wrong (the other time being when they said $250 HD-DVD players would mean the end of BR).
Does this mean that Paramount's decision won't have any effect down the road? No, not necessarily, though I don't think it will have a big effect, or at least not nearly as much as the HD camp seems to think. But since the HD-DVD crowd was bragging about a spike or surge over the past couple of weeks it's relevant in how it shows that, once again, they were wrong (the other time being when they said $250 HD-DVD players would mean the end of BR).