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Forums - Gaming - The reality of DVD vs Blu Ray vs Digital Distibution. As of October 20 2009

selnor on 22 October 2009
Steroid said:
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?

0

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.


Ithink youiss the point. Live is probably a HUGE amount of the percentage. And also PC downloads for movies. Obviously this doesn't include illegal downloads as it is based off of revenue. Which makes it worse for BluRay as it is the most expensive meaning it's selling even less than it seems.



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dbot on 22 October 2009
sega4life said:


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 ...

I don't recall anyone ever saying this about CD's.  In fact people were rampantly stealing MP3s through Napster.  The big difference between a CD/Album and a movie is a CD only contains 1 or 2 songs that most people want.  They can buy those songs for a dollar or two from iTunes rather than buying the complete album for $15.  Nobody is going to buy individual scenes from a movie.

 

 



Thanks for the input, Jeff.

 

 

silicon on 22 October 2009

It makes sense.

People got used to downloading what they want using torrents, or napster etc making the transition from purchasing physical to digital media easier.

The generation that grew up downloading mp3s and videos is now older with jobs and are more willing to pay for media they want conveniently.



Lostplanet22 on 22 October 2009

That dvd is down okay but Blu Ray is kind of shocking cause the weekly updates of Blu Ray sales was (almost) always higher compared to last year.



 

SciFiBoy on 22 October 2009

best place for DD tv shows ive used is iTunes, XBOX Live in the UK has 0 tv shows, same with PSN, in fact, in the UK, only place I know I can dl tv shows (legally ) is iTunes, I have loads, its fairly cheap (£1.89 (sd) £2.49 (hd) per episode)



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WereKitten on 22 October 2009
Lostplanet22 said:
That dvd is down okay but Blu Ray is kind of shocking cause the weekly updates of Blu Ray sales was (almost) always higher compared to last year.

Indeed. Follow the link, and you'll see that Blu-Ray is up 66%. The total of DVD+Blu-Ray shrinked, though, as DVD is losing to DD (and rentals are gaining over sales) faster than BD is compensating. The title is misleading.



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Steroid on 22 October 2009

Actually if you click on the source that this link is referring to it says:

"Overall home-entertainment revenue, including DVD and Blu-ray sales, rentals, video-on-demand and digital downloads and streaming, fell 3.2% in the third quarter to $4 billion"

"The Digital Entertainment Group, an industry trade association, reported that rental revenue rose 9.9% in the three-month period ending Sept. 30, even faster than the 8.3% growth it experienced in the first half of the year.

Every other sector of the home entertainment business, including DVD sales, high definition Blu-ray disc sales and digital transactions, grew slower or shrank faster than during the first half of 2009."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2009/10/accelerating-rentals-prop-up-shrinking-home-entertainment-biz.html

So basically this thread is just spin. Surprise, surprise.



TRios_Zen on 22 October 2009

I may be the only one that feels this way but I rarely buy DVD's/Blu-Ray anymore for this reason: DVD quality picture IS inferior to the Blu-Ray (noticeable on my primary TV) but Blu-Rays have exceeded the price I'm willing to pay for a movie.

The end result? I buy nothing and use netflix/live/PSN for movies a lot.



selnor on 22 October 2009
WereKitten said:
selnor said:
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@ PullusPardus.

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

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?

Um I read the article again. There is nowhere that says BluRay went from 3-4% marketshare ( thats about 66.3% increase you claim for software sales. )

But yes I made a mistake. DD has 10% marketshare. Considering DD really only took off properly on Live 2 years ago extensively, and now this christmas we have 1080p just introduced.

I am willing to take your bet. Because the figures I have seen for Bluray software sales have declined for 18 months. With a few spikes.



Lostplanet22 on 22 October 2009

Yeah it is spin.

Blu Ray rose 66% = Meh not doing good.

Digital distribution rose 18% = Wow awesome!