A look at home video sales for 2017, including the continued decline in DVD/Blu-Ray sales, plus the fortunes of streaming, Redbox kiosks, and even old-fashioned video rental stores.
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Tag: DVD
Streaming video sales surpass DVDs/Blu-rays for the first time
For the first time, revenues from streaming services (such as Netflix) have outpaced those of DVDs and Blu-rays in the United States.
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Why isn’t renting or buying digital videos catching on like streaming services?
Why haven’t digital video sales or rentals taken off the way streaming video services have? I look at a few reasons why this is the case.
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20 animated TV shows not fully available on DVD or digital video
There’s still various animated TV shows that aren’t available on DVD or digital video. These shows range from most of “Static Shock” to various Disney Channel shows to older cartoons such as “Quick Draw McGraw.”
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RIP Columbia House
Once upon a time, Columbia House was a mail-order subscription music service. Columbia House ran ads in Sunday newspaper supplements like[…]
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When seven pieces of technology became deemed obsolete
My list of seven pieces of obsolete technology (from rotary-dial phones to VCRs), and what the tipping point was when they became deemed obsolete.
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Fox to end DVD and Blu-Ray releases of “The Simpsons”
Fox has reported they plan to halt production of any future DVD and Blu-Ray season box sets for the long-running TV[…]
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Which Kids WB shows still aren’t available on home video?
As I wrote a few years ago, there was a sizable portion of the animated programs that ran on Kids[…]
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The 1960s Batman TV series will be released to home video in 2014
Not a hoax, not a dream, and not an imaginary story… news came today that one of the “Holy Grails”[…]
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“Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain” finally arrives on DVD
Yesterday, Warner Bros. announced the release in early 2014 of a two-disc DVD box set of the short-lived 1998 series[…]
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