| HD DVD Statistics | Amazon HD DVD Statistics | HD DVD Sales Percentages | Amazon Movie Pre-orders | FAQ | How Can I Help? | Blu-ray Statistics |
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| How did this site come into being? | I always wondered about things like what percentage of Blu-ray movies used BD50 and how many Sony movies have AVC encodes and cost less than $30. So I made the database and this site. |
| How does it work? | The main pages are largely generated in real time using php and mySQL, incluing all of the graphs and pie charts. |
| It looks pretty crappy - do you have any experience in web design? | No. |
| Is there any way I can help? |
You can send corrections to corrections at blu-raystats dot com or additions to additions at blu-raystats dot com.
Suggestions can be sent to suggestions at blu-raystats dot com. |
| What about financial help? | I do not have any desire to collect donations. If you want to help financially, you can use the Amazon links to buy your discs or go to the Amazon page to preorder or search for any other items you like to buy from Amazon. This will generate referral income for the site at no extra cost to you. I like Amazon and use it myself. |
| Do you get my information when I do this? | No - I only see what items were ordered. Many thanks to the person who purchased the Huggies using my referral code. |
| Are you funded by anyone or any company that has a stake in the format war? | No - I am not funded by anyone at all. Except Amazon - see above. |
| Will the site be around forever? | I have no plans to take the site down. That said, it is on a fairly low level server and now that it seems to be getting some blogger attention the traffic loads could become problematic. It was never intended to be in wide circulation but I will happily keep it running and will perhaps seek other funding methods if the traffic gets too much for my current level of service. |
| Will you add review information? | My current plan is to only support factual and objective data that can be confirmed and not disputed. Review scores do not fall into this category, but it is possible that a review score secondary page could be added in the future. |
| Which format will win? | It is quite possible that neither format will win or lose. Generally my support lies behind Blu-ray disc since I believe that the specifications that are important favour Blu-ray. That said, it is my expectation that the success of either format will be determined by the titles that are released, rather than any technological advantage. |
| Is this information 100% accurate? | Probably not. I don't own all these discs and have gleaned the information from the internet. Never trust the internet 100% when it comes to making important decisions. Do the research and make informed decisions that you feel happy with. |
| Where exactly do you get the information from then? | To give credit where credit is due, the Box Office information is from Box Office Mojo and the other details come from review sites like HighDefDigest, user comments at the AVS Forum and the Blu-ray Forum as well as information submitted to the corrections email address above. |
| Are you British? | No. I am just not American. |
| This is great - can I buy you a beer? | Of course! |