New "superior" disc format to compete with Blu-ray coming Q1 09

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selnor said:

RPG said:
Digital Distribution will never overtake disc format, look how big music downloads have become yet people still buy music discs. Gamestop, Game, huge supermarkets etc would also lose huge sums of money so no matter how anyone looks at it, people will still always prefer the hard copy.

The day a company goes digital distribution only will be the same day they die. Also what about connection speeds? I cant keep count with the number of people who only have a certain bandwidth and can only download so much in a month.

NA, Asia and Japan need to get superfast internet speeds and that too the majority of people, then someone can say with a straight face that DD can match a hard copy.

LOL majorly. Yes people still buy physical media but it seriously is nowhere near being the dominant format. Digital is the be all end all of that industry now. It's where the revenue comes from.

For example End of year report from RIAA for CD single sales was 2.6 million in america in 2007 making $12.2 mill

For Digital downloads for singles in 2007 was 809.9 million making $801.8 mill

Massive difference.

Straight face that hard copy cant match DD. :)

http://76.74.24.142/81128FFD-028F-282E-1CE5-FDBF16A46388.pdf

 

from the same link.

CD album sales 511.1 million making $7452.3 million.

DD album sales 42.5 million making $424.9 million.

 

% of revenue 2007 (for all formats): Physical 77%, Digital 23%.