Comments on: DVD sales plunge while Blu-ray sales fester

By: DaveBG

DaveBG — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:44:37 +0000

There’s also the problem that quite a lot of high definition transfers don’t look that great in the first place and end up looking little better than the upscaled DVD.

By: JohnJ

JohnJ — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:00:10 +0000

Another factor not mentioned so far is that perhaps the quality of the product is deteriorating so people are less interested in buying it. Quality movies are harder and harder to find.

As Hollywood thinks mostly in terms of remakes, sequels, and “safe bets” for commercial success, they move to more formulaic movies that are as a whole uninspiring. While adequate to watch once, those films aren’t anything I’d want to see again later. So we don’t buy the DVDs.

That and the recession are the main factors I’d point to.

By: John Lister

John Lister — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:43:08 +0000

I wonder how much of it is down to people buying so many DVDs in the good times that, now belts are tightening, people have so many unwatched movies on their shelves that they can get by without buying new ones.

By: DaveBG

DaveBG — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:40:10 +0000

Between downloads, Sky’s DVR TV service and the non-Sky DVRs it’s easy to see why DVD sales are on a slow slide.

The big surprise is that Blu-ray has taken only 3% of the market despite those 2.2 million PS3s that have been sold.

If the PS3 owners aren’t even bothering they really are in trouble.

By: Rebek

Rebek — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:35:32 +0000

How can DVD be winning the fight (if there really is a fight) if it’s revenues are dropping whilst Blu-Ray’s are climbing?

Does anyone have any recent figures for these movie downloads that are supposed to be taking over? I know last year they were less than half a percent of the whole market, up 66% on the 2007, so I suspect they’ll make Blu-Ray look like a runaway success in comparison, in both absolute sales and market increase.