alpha_dk said:
ROFLOL U R TEH CLEVER N THAT WAS TEH FUNNYZZZZ. Yet somehow, SD rez doesn't seem to be stopping services like Netflix's Roku, NBC's Hulu, or ANY of the competing IP-based video-on-demand services from pulling in huge numbers of viewers. For example, in April alone, 63 million videos were watched on Hulu, a small subset of video on demand. Compare this to LTD Blu-ray sales being at 11 Million. Let that sink in; in April, there were 6x as many videos watched on a small subset of video on demand sites as there have EVER been sales on Blu-ray. People as a whole don't care about 1080p. Video On Demand is where the future is (and where the future money is). |
not totally true, a lot of people use VOD to confirm if a movie is worth purchasing on DVD or Blu-ray. This is why for the last two weeks of sales data from Neilson VideoScan Blu-ray revenue has been around 10 million and DVD revenue between 120 and 140 million dollars.
IF you divide the MSRP price for Bluray, $35, into 10 million you get 285,714 movies sold. Now taking DVD's MSRP of $25, devided into 130 million, you get 5,200,000.
If you use my quick estimates it shows that VOD might be have a ton of watchers but a ton of people still by into hard media. My estimates still dont take into account for discounts and other sales.
