Originally posted by: TheSessler
I presume widescreen is shelfwarming because people cannot stand "to watch half of the picture"
I presume widescreen is shelfwarming because people cannot stand "to watch half of the picture"
the top dvd sales almost always (if not always) have the widescreen versions selling more copies than the full screen version. some of the widescreen advocate pages show this data, and im sure its available elsewhere. usually its displayed as the movie and its rank in the weekly sales. so for instance it would show ROTS - Widescreen : 1 and ROTS - Fullscreen : 5 which would mean widescreen was the top seller and fullscreen was the 5th top seller.
remember, if they sell more widescreen movies they will order more for their stock, and the reverse is true for fullscreen. so if they order 1000 widescreen, and 50 fullscreen. then sell half of each, they still have a ton more widescreen than fullscreen (500 vs 25). so you cant make the shelfwarming statement without knowing the initial stock/order levels
-Darth Simon