SvennoJ said:
Zappykins said:
SvennoJ said:
kowenicki said:
Doubt it
Streaming.
I'd like to see those revenue figures going back a few years.... |
It seems they're predicting people are going to spend a lot more money total on movies. Physical not shrinking much while online takes off.
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It's not shrinking that fast, I guess the higher price of blu-ray helps. Total units sold is probably going down faster.
Edit: I see the source on that second picture is from 2010, oops. I guess the prediction was fairly accurate, inline with that pie chart.
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Wow, those charts show it's worse than I thought. I should be growing dramatically with people is slowly shrinking. What is missing from the graphs is the crash and decline of VHS sales.
As far as the questions, it might help a little bit. But seeing how a decent Bluray can be had for like $50, I think very few people were missing out. I think the medium is pretty much done. That's why I'm curious to see if they offer a new 4K Blu-ray. I don't know if it's practical though.
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Blu-ray revenue is still growing year over year, so it's far from done.
I would like to see how physical renting declined vs increase in digital renting. And physical ownership decline vs digital ownership emerging.
It's all a bit muddled now lobbed together. Are more people content nowadays with streaming and don't care to own movies anymore, or are people actually switching to digital libraries. Or is the decline also affected by torrents becoming easier to use as bandwidth increases.
This is what I could find for VHS, total units sold:
https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/research/statistics/wvprodretail.aspx
I always thought the VHS market was bigger, DVD was huge!
Anyway blu-ray's marketshare is climbing steadily (may 2008 - april 13)
But total sales are going down, so revenue is climbing much slower (jan 2010 - april 2013)
http://www.digital-digest.com/blog/DVDGuy/2013/06/08/blu-ray-the-state-of-play-may-2013/
I'm looking forward to 4K blu-ray. Where are the players! Nothing yet from CES 2014.
More 4k streaming has been announced, but I can't even stream decent 1080p for more then 10 hours a month :/
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Thanks for the research! Is this just consumers? I know there was also a large amount of industry VHS purchaes for rentals. And they wore out so there were repurchases. Remember the ol' Blockbuster. They went through many tapes.
As far as the questions about TV show being in 'SD' or stand definintion. Remember most all TV Shows since Lucy are shot in Film. And film is higher quality than DVD, so by re sampling the original they could all look better. Even 8mm can push 1080P and most TV is higher quality 35mm film.
Look at the old Twilight Zones or orginal Star Treks at 1080p, they look really good. They could probably be slightly improved at 4K as well, but then the minor flaws in the background start to pop out more.
