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United States DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending September 7, 2008

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  TitleUnits
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Total
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Spending
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Weeks
1 (-) The Office: Season 4 417,486   417,486  $12,937,891  $12,937,891 50
2 (1) Little Mermaid - Ariel's Beginning, The 359,113 -63% 1,339,350  $7,178,669  $22,852,659 2
3 (2) What Happens in Vegas 220,928 -57% 733,592  $4,469,882  $14,811,494 2
4 (3) Heroes - Season Two 139,609 -64% 531,508  $3,488,829  $13,262,790 2
5 (4) The Nightmare Before Christmas 129,810 -52% 402,806  $3,121,645  $9,631,671 562
6 new Supernatural - The Complete Third Season 104,979   104,979  $4,093,131  $4,093,131 1
7 (5) Camp Rock 79,393 -49% 749,553  $1,190,101  $11,227,987 3
8 (6) Street Kings 70,642 -39% 455,370  $1,419,904  $9,217,548 3
9 new Desperate Housewives: The Complete Fourth Season 64,612   64,612  $2,519,222  $2,519,222 1
10 new Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow, The 61,806   61,806  $926,472  $926,472 1
11 new Bait Shop 61,471   61,471  $1,044,392  $1,044,392 1
12 (-) Transformers 59,043 +576% 14,088,222  $735,741  $265,833,938 47
13 (10) Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior, The 54,688 -39% 384,310  $886,044  $6,609,406 3
14 (13) 21 49,286 -10% 1,345,330  $788,083  $21,511,827 7
15 (8) Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus - Best of Both World… 49,118 -53% 550,351  $1,080,105  $12,102,219 3
16 (11) House, M.D. - Season Four 47,820 -25% 278,463  $1,577,582  $9,186,495 3
17 new Mickey Mouse Clubhouse - Mickey's Storybook Sur… 47,653   47,653  $714,318  $714,318 1
18 (7) Entourage - The Complete Fourth Season 45,224 -56% 149,129  $1,175,372  $3,875,863 2
19 (9) One Tree Hill - The Complete Fifth Season 44,470 -54% 141,709  $1,733,885  $5,525,234 2
20 (15) Shield The: The Complete Sixth Season 41,623 -23% 95,536  $1,664,504  $3,712,659 2
21 (-) 10,000 B.C. 41,246 +119% 1,629,398  $500,314  $25,541,088 11
22 (18) Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay 40,785 -11% 876,628  $886,128  $19,512,900 6
23 (12) Prom Night 40,744 -36% 248,985  $776,776  $4,450,777 3
24 (-) The Bucket List 40,409 +163% 2,017,055  $490,161  $34,097,936 13
25 (-) The Big Bang Theory: Season 1 38,147   38,147  $724,412  $724,412 50
26 (16) Nim's Island 37,519 -24% 825,746  $675,987  $14,856,191 5
27 (24) The Notebook 29,883 -8% 6,095,487  $403,122  $73,519,026 187
28 (14) NCIS - The Complete Fifth Season 28,642 -47% 82,751  $1,115,319  $3,222,323 2
29 (27) Doomsday 27,996 +1% 374,135  $509,071  $6,752,560 6
30 (17) Dexter: Season 2 27,820 -41% 213,323  $695,222  $5,213,559 50

Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News.

For example, if our weekly retail survey estimates that a particular title sold 1% of all units that week, and the industry reports sales of 1,500,000 units in total, we will estimate 15,000 units were sold of that title. The consumer spending estimate is based on the average sales price for the title in the retailers we survey.

We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates.

Because sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles.