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Originally Posted by billd91 Do the DVD sales figures include HD and Blu-ray sales? If they don't, the growth of those two formats (and now just growth of Blu-ray) could account for the change. What evidence was presented that digital piracy was the cause of the decline? |
These numbers are a little tougher to come by since all Sony wants you to know is BluRay sales are up a gajillion%. Well, no kidding. Three years ago, sales were 0. Two years ago, sales were however many copies of Pirates of the Caribbean you sold. BluRay (and if you haven't made a choice yet, choose BluRay people--HD is the next Betamax) is really taking off now, so it's hard to parse what BluRay sales you're getting in place of DVD sales. When it comes to DVD sales, it's not so much the -2% growth that's alarming, it's the fact that in 2004 DVD sales grew +29% and now you're suddenly at -2%. Not coincidently, retailers like Borders and Barnes&Noble made major investments in DVD and CD sales around this time (in terms of how many square feet in a store they devoted to those products, also in terms of opening much bigger stores to accommodate a high volume of DVD/CD sales) and take a look at how their stock's been doing lately.
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