![]() Moreover, because of lockdowns cinemas and movie theaters have had to close for extended periods of time. Because of covid measures, Hollywood studios have had to halt movie production for months. Expenditure on streaming services has increased at an accelerated rate while spending on physical media has not. The past year has not been a normal year for a lot of things, including entertainment spending. The year 2020First a note of caution, though. I’ve tracked those numbers the past few years and they show a couple of interesting things. Nielsen VideoScan, a company of the NPD Group, has since years been collecting retail sales numbers of consumer purchases in the U.S. ![]() It’s likely the ultimate video disc format. What’s niche perhaps is the premium segment of this market – Ultra HD Blu-ray, a 4K HDR disc format introduced 5 years ago this February, 10 years after Blu-ray Disc and 20 years after DVD. It’s shrinking for sure, by double-digit numbers annually, but it’s still a mass market. With the competition between streaming services intensifying, it’s easy to forget there’s still a market of consumers who buy physical media, who like to collect tangible things, for a variety of reasons including pride of ownership, wanting to actually own things, fear of tampering by content owners.
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