DVD, Blu-ray Shrinking. Digital Distribution Rising

The bad news is that DVD sales are falling and Blu-ray sales, with only 4% of the market, aren’t taking up the slack. The good news is that digital distribution, with ten percent of the market share, is up 18% and rentals are up too.

Total disc sales, including standard DVDs and Blu-ray, plunged 13.9%, a slightly bigger drop than the 13.5% decline in the first six months of 2009. In an effort to downplay just how dismal revenue from DVD sales has become, DEG didn't disclose total revenue for the category.

Now I expect loads of people to say BluRay has more than 4%. But no it doesn't. This is the software sales and nothing to do with how many hardware units for BluRay have been sold.

 

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2009/10/20/dvd_bluray_shrinking_digital_distribution_rising

CD to MP3 syndrome..

Remember when people said MP3's would never over take CD's.

I remember my friends and people saying they need to have the CD case and the lyrics..

I also remember CD's being $11.99 when they first came out, but then they went to $19.99, and would only have one or two songs worth listening to, and then started to not have lyrics in the case.

Now look at MP3's. When you download an MP3, you get the box art and you can upload lyrics to your MP3 player as well.

I haven't step foot in a Music store in years, heck I never even walk down the music isle in Wal*Mart..


I never thought I would stop buying DvD's, but I was looking at my DvD/Blu-ray collection and noticing the last movie I got was Batman on Blu-ray for X-Mas, that has never happened, I was always buying movies the day they came out every other week I would have a new movie.

i think Bluray will rise cause i gotta admit i wont be downloading 50 GB files anytime soon.
and DVD will still be here for maybe music, but Digital is going to be leading all the way.

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@ Sega4Life. I havent bought a CD in over 3 years. And I haven't bought a film since Star Wars Trilogy boxset! August 2008!

@ PullusPardus.

18% marketshare for DD, only 4% for BluRay. It has happened faster than anyone would have predicted.

I can take DD movies but I'm just not a fan of DD games. What if a company goes down under and your system dies and you need to redownload the DD game and its no longer available? As far as games are concerned, I need my hard copies. It's just the nature of the medium. Preserving a game isn't as simple as copying the data to a HDD unlike movies and music.

I still buy all 3

Now people are trying to compare movies to music.

I've had an Ipod that can play movies since 2006 you know how many movies I watch on my ipod?

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All the digital downloads are going to kill physical movies talk seems to have been ramped up as soon as HD-DVD died, even though itunes store has offered movies for years. Coincidence?

There is no ipod for movies and there never will be. I'm gonna watch a movie when I walk to work? Yeah and get hit by a bus? Nice.

Wrong, read the article:

- digital distribution up 18% over last quarter, to a total of about 10% market share

- Blu-Ray up 66.3% over last quarter, to a total of about 4% market share

Want to make a bet on which market share is going to grow faster over the holidays period and in the following months? With the Blu-Ray players being as cheap as they are now and surely replacing DVD players in the mass market at a growing rate, do you really think that BD won't cannibalize the DVD market quick enough to be the relevant alternative to DD in a few years?

Btw, why is this in "gaming discussion"? As far as I understand, that's revenue shares from the DEG quarterly report.

i watch tv shows on my ipod all the time, and on itunes on my pc, i think its great.