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Re: doesn't that strike you as particularly strange?

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Posted by jeromelang on March 20, 2007 at 00:28:20

In Reply to: Re: doesn't that strike you as particularly strange? posted by David Aiken on March 19, 2007 at 01:42:36:

<< I get the feeling that you're a fence sitter with respect to the new HD disc formats and have strong reservations about both HD-DVD and BD. That's fine but don't make the mistake of thinking that the majority of people agree with you. >>

for your info, i already owned a PS3 and a couple of stand-alone players, going into a receiver fully capable of extracting the uncompressed LPCM audio. i have on hand 8 BD titles. check the archives here before falling into the wrong conclusions, will ya?

the UK public aren't the ones buying up this CR BD title. It's one of the manufacturer who is stocking up the title for their impending format avatar player/gamer launch. instead of getting the stock directly from their sister studio company, they are opting to get it from a high profile online retailer at virtually the same industry accomodation cost (prior negotiation), then posting the qty they acquired as a "retail triumph". it's disgusting, but it is not the first time something like this have happened for this company. remember the fake expert movie review fiasco 3 years ago? still, it is a marketing masterstroke, and i wish i have thought of it 3 years ago. i myself have bought and sold more than 45 thousand copies of sacd sampler for similar bundling / product intro purposes.

here's some figures: we used 45 thousand copies of sacd in asia alone. japan, us and europe have bigger sales qty, so let's conservatively say they all used double the qty of sacd samplers we used. that's 45k + (90k x 3), totalling close to 300k copies. maybe 2 or more other companies had similar sales promotion. and don't forget that rolling stones magazines gave away a sacd sampler for one of their issue back in 2005. so, maybe, ultra-conservatively, 900K copies of sacd sold were samplers for sales bundling purposes. did you know how many sacds were sold up to this very date? optimistically, just under 2 million copies? that means close to half of those were purchased for sales promotion and weren't purchased voluntarily by sacd luvers. Obviously my experiences give me a different outlook on the Casino Royale sales figures to the one you have.

looks like we are witnessing the same cycle all over again....

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