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NEWS: Declines in Japan's Video, Anime Sales Slowed in 2009




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GATSU



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:17 am Reply with quote
They still sell tapes in Japan?! Surprised the country's embracing Blu-Ray better than the rest of the world. Is the like the time when they were the only consumers buying LD when it was barely getting by everywhere else? I'm more curious how HDTV's gonna do over there, though.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:14 am Reply with quote
GATSU wrote:
They still sell tapes in Japan?! Surprised the country's embracing Blu-Ray better than the rest of the world. Is the like the time when they were the only consumers buying LD when it was barely getting by everywhere else? I'm more curious how HDTV's gonna do over there, though.

I'm not sure they're available for retail purchase, but rental places still stock tapes of children's anime, so perhaps those sale numbers are entirely for sales to rental outlets.
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DavidShallcross



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:33 am Reply with quote
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94.0% of the Blu-ray market, or 22.659 billion yen (US$250.9 million), went to retail DVDs (as opposed to DVDs destined for rental shops).

I think you should stop referring to individual Blu-ray discs as 'DVDs'. It is kind of confusing, at first I tried to figure why any of the Blue-ray market would be going to DVDs.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:14 am Reply with quote
GATSU wrote:
They still sell tapes in Japan?! Surprised the country's embracing Blu-Ray better than the rest of the world. Is the like the time when they were the only consumers buying LD when it was barely getting by everywhere else? I'm more curious how HDTV's gonna do over there, though.


Um, Bluray is doing great, especially in the United States where it's offsetting a big loss in the DVD market much like in Japan. I remember people here told me like a year ago that Bluray would be a flop. God were they stupid.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:26 pm Reply with quote
When you compare Blu-ray sales to DVD sales, it is still a much smaller number. While people are buying Blu-ray, a lot are just buying less of everything. I'm still not convinced Blu-ray is doing great. Didn't RSI say their BD was selling poorly? And I know a certain someone on this forum who, last time he reported, said the only anime BD that was bought from his Best Buy was one he had bought.

Granted, the information I am providing might be old, and I have to admit I am biased against BD (I refuse to buy BD, not worth the cost) but BD sales are less than 1/10th that of DVD sales still, at least in Japan. I am curious what the #'s in USA look like, though.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:18 pm Reply with quote
ZakuAce wrote:
Granted, the information I am providing might be old, and I have to admit I am biased against BD (I refuse to buy BD, not worth the cost) but BD sales are less than 1/10th that of DVD sales still, at least in Japan.


But for anime in Japan though, Bluray makes up the growing majority of current sales.

And in the US, it depends who's talking. Funimation had mentioned that BD sales are great.

And overall outside of anime at least in the US, BD sales continuously increases by significant amounts, not to mention dropping prices
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GATSU



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:58 pm Reply with quote
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Um, Bluray is doing great, especially in the United States where it's offsetting a big loss in the DVD market much like in Japan.


Not really. Or they wouldn't be trying to get you to buy into 3D-compatible players now.
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