This was as far as Blu-ray Disc got in trying to displace DVD after reaching maturity. The split between DVD and BD was about 50/50 (in units) before UHD BD launched. It’s clearly visible in 2020 but if you look back a little further you can see this happening more or less from the introduction of UHD BD.
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Percentage of units sold, based on weekly data from NPD VideoScan and MediaPlayNews research The big squeeze The most interesting trend in my view is what’s happening to Blu-ray Disc, the 1080p HD disc format: it’s getting squeezed between DVD and Ultra HD Blu-ray.
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That’s the main reason why 2020 was not a great year for movie sales, and it has exaggerated certain trends. The sell-through video market is, or at least used to be, driven by such new releases.
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This dearth of theatrical releases has translated into a complete stagnation of home video releases a few months down the line, still observing the traditional windows in the staggered releases schedules. 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.
The BD includes an excellent 30-minute “making-off” documentary and five deleted scenes, several of which most viewers will wish were included in this exceptional film.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.
Still, this is a superb film for mature filmgoers who enjoy challenging cinema. It is depressing to see the archetypal passionate lovers of Titanic squirm in their suburban setting as their dreams are gradually destroyed by the demands of ordinary life, as their illusions of superiority are ground down by their failures to break the bonds of a mundane life that swallows them as effectively as the pods in Don Siegel’s 1957 Invasion of the Bodysnatchers subsumed the bodies of that film’s sleeping suburbanites. Revolutionary Road is a subtler and scarier dissection of suburban life than Mendes’ American Beauty, but it is easy to see why the film, in spite of its brilliant performances and impeccable technique, landed at #7 on the Blu-ray charts. The film, which is based on the influential novel of suburban striving by Richard Yates, reunites the lovers from Titanic, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, except this time their love is sorely tested by their struggles to maintain their individuality is the soul-crushing suburbs of the late 1950s. The same day that it released Defiance, Paramount also put out the Blu-ray version of Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road.