In-Stat: Downloads actually stimulate BD sales, sell less than 1/2 of BD by 2012

[atomik kinder]

Indeed, the report found that 39% of adult respondents intend to purchase or rent DVDs via the Internet by 2012, while more than 54% said they prefer packaged media when buying movies or TV shows.


I find this quote misleading and perhaps confusing. I rent and purchase all of my DVDs (well BDs too) online. If they say DVD isn't it a given that it is a physical media and not a download? I rent my movies from Netflix and buy them from Amazon. Almost 100% of what I buy and rent comes from the internet but is not a download in any way.

[JBlacklow]

HD Digital Titles May Be Delayed by More Than Bandwidth:

That flood of demand for high-definition digital titles may be a little farther off than some studios and content providers had hoped.

Movie-download service Vudu said this week that it will let customers renew high-definition movie titles for $1.99. The company, which offers standard-definition renewals for 99 cents, charges $3.99 to $5.99 for first-time rentals of HD titles.

“In this age of $4-a-gallon gas and ‘staycations,’ we felt that Vudu customers deserved a break,” said Patrick Cosson, the company’s vice president of marketing. Of Vudu’s 6,500 titles, about 200 are available in HD.

With studios such as Lionsgate forecasting U.S. consumers will spend about $1.5 billion on digital downloads and streaming this year, and Blu-ray revenue expected to account for about 4% of the $25 billion home entertainment market, digital delivery of HD films may jump from a negligible number to more than $60 million this year.

Already, Blu-ray revenue has jumped fourfold to more than $200 million this year, despite home entertainment spending being nearly flat at about $10.1 billion, according to data compiled by Video Business and Rentrak.

Meanwhile, Lionsgate said in an earnings call this week that revenue from digital delivery would more than double to about $3.5 billion within the next five years while the continued rise in high-definition TV sales suggests that HD titles will account for a progressively larger share of that total.

Still, the promotion by Vudu, which doesn’t disclose sales or rental figures, suggests that between bandwidth limitations that lengthen the time it takes to download or stream HD titles, the disparate components used to bring digital titles directly to televisions and the general cutback in consumer spending, it may yet be a while before digital delivery of HD titles becomes the norm.

[cakefoo]

Originally Posted by atomik kinder

Indeed, the report found that 39% of adult respondents intend to purchase or rent DVDs via the Internet by 2012, while more than 54% said they prefer packaged media when buying movies or TV shows.


I find this quote misleading and perhaps confusing. I rent and purchase all of my DVDs (well BDs too) online. If they say DVD isn't it a given that it is a physical media and not a download? I rent my movies from Netflix and buy them from Amazon. Almost 100% of what I buy and rent comes from the internet but is not a download in any way.

That's a pretty good point. That $4.5 billion figure isn't just downloads- Netflix alone is going to make up a massive chunk of that- their revenue totaled $1.2 billion in 2007, up from $996 million the previous year and growing.

Just think: some of that online revenue mikemorel is going to credit to DD's is going to be Blu-ray rentals

[Blu Titan]

Q4 of this year will mark the beginning of Blu-ray mass adoption. The CE electronic manufacturers will be looking to make their mark, and the beginning price point for the players will be much lower than last year.

[TheTenth]

"to purchase or rent" : this phrase is the most important as we don't know if 90% would use it to keep the movie or 90% would just rent, which makes the article flawed : if 90% rent movie to buy it on Blu-ray later it's good for shops (online or physical) if 90% buy the movie by download, Blu-ray and retailers lose.