Home Video Sales Thread (HMM weekly/DEG quarterly/Nielsen Top 20/etc.)

[johndoyle123]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

Lord that’s starting to sting

[johndoyle123]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

Just using the data in my post, Q3 is down 22.40% so far. We are about half way through Q3. It could go either way: down 20% or down 25%. Depends how the rest of August and all of September goes. I don't think it will be more than that.

Care to revise this ?

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by johndoyle123

Care to revise this ?

Too early to tell. One disastrous week isn't going to make a huge difference when you are talking about 12 weeks total. We have weeks 7/11 and 8/1 that can offset the 8/15 week. Still 5 weeks of data missing until the end of Q3.

[Lee A Stewart]

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

[Lee A Stewart]

So far the physical media numbers for Q3:

7/4 – disc sales down 20.66% from the same week in 2019
7/11 – disc sales down 10.96%
7/18 – disc sales down 35.01%
7/25 – disc sales down 23.09%
8/1 – disc sales down 17.53%
8/8 – disc sales down 27.13%
8/15 – disc sales down 61.82%
8/22 – disc sales down 36.29%
8/29 – disc sales down 44.43%
9/5 – disc sales down 34.33%

[Lee A Stewart]

[JohnAV]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

So far the physical media numbers for Q3:

7/4 – disc sales down 20.66% from the same week in 2019
7/11 – disc sales down 10.96%
7/18 – disc sales down 35.01%
7/25 – disc sales down 23.09%
8/1 – disc sales down 17.53%
8/8 – disc sales down 27.13%
8/15 – disc sales down 61.82%
8/22 – disc sales down 36.29%
8/29 – disc sales down 44.43%
9/5 – disc sales down 34.33%

Are we expecting sales up because no theaters are open and no new movies are being released compared to same time last year?

Thats been my biggest concern is just the lack of good media titles. Old movies coming out on 4K doesn't do it.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by JohnAV

Are we expecting sales up because no theaters are open and no new movies are being released compared to same time last year?

Thats been my biggest concern is just the lack of good media titles. Old movies coming out on 4K doesn't do it.

Even when there were new movies being released on disc, sales were down.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

[Lee A Stewart]

physical media numbers for Q3:

7/4 – disc sales down 20.66% from the same week in 2019
7/11 – disc sales down 10.96%
7/18 – disc sales down 35.01%
7/25 – disc sales down 23.09%
8/1 – disc sales down 17.53%
8/8 – disc sales down 27.13%
8/15 – disc sales down 61.82%
8/22 – disc sales down 36.29%
8/29 – disc sales down 44.43%
9/5 – disc sales down 34.33%
9/12 - disc sales down 50.56%

So far Q3 is down an average of 32.89%. Two more weeks left till the end of the quarter.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by JohnAV

Are we expecting sales up because no theaters are open and no new movies are being released compared to same time last year?

Thats been my biggest concern is just the lack of good media titles. Old movies coming out on 4K doesn't do it.

That’s the point I was trying to make a while back. It’s pointless.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

Even when there were new movies being released on disc, sales were down.

Yes, but not to this degree. You can’t apply logic to this situation. There are no new releases, Blu-ray is a hit based format. UHD even more so. If Tenet, Mulan, WW, Bond etc were due on disc this month or last we would be seeing great numbers.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Yes, but not to this degree. You can’t apply logic to this situation. There are no new releases, Blu-ray is a hit based format. UHD even more so. If Tenet, Mulan, WW, Bond etc were due on disc this month or last we would be seeing great numbers.

So how does all that reflect on catalog titles cause that's all that are being released.

Also keep in mind that historically, Q3 is the weakest quarter of the year for physical media sales.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

So how does all that reflect on catalog titles cause that's all that are being released.

Also keep in mind that historically, Q3 is the weakest quarter of the year for physical media sales.

Catalogue titles are never going to make up for big releases.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Catalogue titles are never going to make up for big releases.

Then what's the motivation for studios to go to the effort of preparing then releasing catalog titles?

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

Then what's the motivation for studios to go to the effort of preparing then releasing catalog titles?

Some money is better than no money.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Some money is better than no money.

I keep seeing that mantra but I'm not sure it holds up.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

I keep seeing that mantra but I'm not sure it holds up.

Have you seen how popular labels like Vinegar Syndrome are? They have to shut down their websites to handle shipping and demand sometimes. Also, there is a world outside the USA. On a title by title basis, it will be worth it.