The video industry's biggest annual gathering opens Tuesday in Las Vegas amid some sobering news: DVD is now 8 years old and facing some growing pains.
After seven years of explosive growth, the industry appears to be leveling off.
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Two factors are leading to the slowdown, Chapek and other executives say. First, the "early adapters" who rushed out and bought DVD players as soon as they arrived on the market have bought so many DVDs over the years that they're approaching the saturation point.
"You're looking at libraries in excess of 100 DVDs, and at that point, (buyers) start to be more selective," Chapek says.
[from USA Today]
Whew! I thought it was just me. I recently looked at my DVD collection -- which was, ahem, much larger than "100 DVDs" -- and realized how much money I’d spent on them, how few of them I’d actually ever watched, and how close on the horizon is the time when TiVo and the Internet mate to produce an everything-on-demand entertainment environment. And I figured, damn, I’m gonna squeeze some bucks outta this while I can, and put 90 percent of the collection up on Half.com.
And people are buyin’ ’em. Suckers. And I'll always have Netflix.
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