Seattle Post-Intelligencer: TV shows old and new send DVD sales soaring
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TV shows old and new send DVD sales soaring - seattlepi.com Quick links to other pages on this site TV shows old and new send DVD sales soaring By GREG HERNANDEZ, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS Published 10:00Â pm, Sunday, August 31, 2003
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| Description: | [...] new and old television shows are being released at such a blistering pace that the genre is becoming the fastest-growing segment of the booming home video industry. Consumers are rushing to buy entire seasons of such current network hits as "Friends," "The Simpsons" and "24," and classic shows like "Bonanza," "The Twilight Zone" and "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In." What once seemed a niche market is now firmly entrenched in the mainstream and contributes big bucks to the bottom line of various movie studios. " 'The Simpsons' is something that is on national television, you can record that," said Judith McCourt, research director for Video Store magazine, an industry trade publication. [...] the consumer is seeing an added value in DVD because they can just watch it on their own terms and there is lots of supplemental material that rounds out the viewing experiences. "Right now, we are weighing new TV series versus catalog and seeing how they do," said Martin Blyth, Paramount Home Video's vice president of publicity. The DVD format not only has been shoving VHS aside in recent years, it also breathed new life into the home video industry. [...] during the first six months of 2003, 427.2 million DVD units were shipped to retailers, representing more than double the number shipped during the same period a year earlier, according to data compiled by the DVD Entertainment Group, an industry trade association. |
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