Market analyst DisplaySearch has released some data for the crucial Black Friday week, ending November 24.

 

On the HD stand-alone player front 57,000 units were moved. HD DVD accounted for 62% of player sales, with rival Blu Ray claiming 37% of units sold. This in contrast to 600,000 standard dvd players sold in the same week. Despite the lower number, Blu Ray claimed 52% of revenue for HD stand-alone players that week, due to the higher margin on their hardware. Things looked a little gloomier for HD DVD on the software sales front that week. With a slew of new releases facing little to no competition from HD DVD, Blu Ray accounted for 72.6% of software sales.

 

DisplaySearch postulates that not much will change with the sales trends we've seen this fall. They predict year-end installed hardware base at 678,000 HD DVD players and 461,000 Blu Ray players.