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I wish they'd published the graph on an absolute scale and not a relative one, because I have no idea if DVD sales have increased or decreased. Only that the ra

I wish they'd published the graph on an absolute scale and not a relative one, because I have no idea if DVD sales have increased or decreased. Only that the ratio with blu-ray has changed. I strongly suspect that the subheadline "DVD sales skyrocket in the last year" is simply false.

jeffbee 4y ago
Yeah, and even the relative bump in Q1 2021 was due to backlogged sales from 2020 supply interruptions. A more recent release of the same periodic data indicates that: """The total video disc market is still clearly in decline in the US (and globally) and does not appear to be recovering after the Covid 19 delays of new disc releases due to theatrical releases being postponed or moved to streaming. In the US, video disc sales fell 25.5% from $3.29 billion in 2019 to $2.45 billion in 2020 and an additional 20% to $1.97 billion in 2021. In the first quarter of 2022, video disc sales continued their decline with an additional 19% drop year-over-year."""