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corroonb
Joined: 04 Aug 2006
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| I haven't got any statistics. You may well be right but Blockbuster is one chain and is not retail. If Best Buy stop stocking HD-DVD, that would be more important. |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:50 am Post subject: |
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| corroonb wrote: |
Most people use online rental these days, Netflix et al.
It's a stupid move by Blockbuster, fracturing an already niche market. |
Netflix has a total customer base of just under 7 million accounts (active and inactive). Everyone else can filed under the "other" category.
In terms of dollars spent, online rentals account for less than 10% of the video rental industry. |
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eddie1983man
Joined: 31 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| koon_taung_daeng wrote: |
| and i don't know anyone that goes to blockbuster anyway, everybody in America that i know ether downloads the movie or uses their video on demand service, blockbuster sucks! |
hmmm, im surprised you haven't met one of the millions of people who do go to blockbuster  |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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| corroonb wrote: |
Most people use online rental these days, Netflix et al.
It's a stupid move by Blockbuster, fracturing an already niche market. |
until TVs are hooked up the net and you can direct dowload to your tv set while sitting on your sofa with your remote control and have your online video store right in front of you while surfing through the genres choosing which movie to watch families are not going to all gather around the pc and watch a movie while eating popcorn..
until then video shops are going to kill it until we see a leap in online video stores and a move from PDP makers to incorperate something like the xbox or ps3 where you can have direct downloading etc to your set..
have a move downloaded and ready before the popcorn is even finished popping.. |
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FistFace
Joined: 24 Mar 2007
Location: Peekaboo! I can see you! And I know what you do!
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:44 am Post subject: |
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Blu-ray has been kicking butt, despite having a very weak summer release schedule (that's why HD-DVD seemed to recover a few points last week). I think Blu-ray only had 2 new releases last week, and HD-DVD had maybe 15. Usually, it's Blu-ray that has more releases, but they are holding back many titles due to the new BD+ encryption coming out late summer/early fall.
I am coming back from the USA with about 10 more games in two weeks. Just got Pirates, Harry Potter, Madden 2007 (got that one for $15), 2K7 Hockey, 2k7 College, 2K7 Basketball (2 copies of that), Virtual Fighter 5, Enchanted Kingdom, Blazing Angels, Motorstorm, Fight Night, The Dons, and a few more I can't remember. Many titles are going on sale for $30 to $40, given that the 2007 sports games are going to be replaced by the 2008 series. I also found lots of used games here, and bought several, for around $30 to $40 US. I'm sort of collecting.
I also purchased over 71 Bluray movies new/used on E-bay over the past month. I'll be watching movies for weeks! I plan to sell them off on auction.co.kr for maybe 20,000 each (you can't get many titles here, and even the non-Korean ones imported go for 30,000+).
I just won a big LOT auction for 29 more discs yesterday, and it cost me $413, including shipping! Averaging $14.25 per disc wasn't a bad deal, and most of the titles were new ones for me. I am currently trading a few off to other members on some blu-ray forum sites. |
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FistFace
Joined: 24 Mar 2007
Location: Peekaboo! I can see you! And I know what you do!
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:59 am Post subject: |
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Here are the Amazon sales wars numbers for Blu-ray and HD-DVD. You can also click links along the top to see various country results:
http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/ |
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