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Disc market share for week ending in 2024-10-05: Despicable Me and Bad Boys' "fourquels" top the charts, while 4K's slice of the pie decreases to less than 10%! (lemmy.ml)
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Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

  1. Despicable Me 4
  2. Bad Boys: Ride or Die
  3. Longlegs
  4. Inside Out 2
  5. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
  6. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
  7. The Fall Guy
  8. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
  9. Bad Boys 4-Movie Collection
  10. The Boy and the Heron
  11. Dune: Part Two
  12. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy
  13. The West Wing: The Complete Series
  14. Civil War
  15. The Garfield Movie
  16. Abigail
  17. IF
  18. The Thing
  19. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
  20. Salem's Lot (1979)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

  1. Bad Boys: Ride or Die
  2. Longlegs
  3. Despicable Me 4
  4. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
  5. The Thing
  6. Paramount Scares Vol. 2
  7. The Fifth ELement
  8. Stardust
  9. Sleepy Hollow
  10. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
  11. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
  12. The Boy and the Heron
  13. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  14. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
  15. The Fall Guy
  16. The Blob (1988)
  17. Imaginary
  18. Halloween
  19. Body Double
  20. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 10 HD Formats Disc Share Per Title

  1. Despicable Me 4 (43%)
  2. Bad Boys: Ride or Die (40%)
  3. Longlegs (50%)
  4. Inside Out 2 (39%)
  5. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (36%)
  6. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (48%)
  7. Beetlejuice (7$)
  8. Addams Family/Addams Family Values (18%)
  9. The Fall Guy (52%)
  10. Despicable Me 4-Movie Collection (4%)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Until I started seeing this graphic weekly on all, I greatly overestimated blu-ray's market share. I find it surprising given the ubiquity of higher definition televisions and blu-ray players.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As stated in previous threads, there are lots of reasons why DVDs are still popular today:

  • Unawareness of, or indifference to, DVDs' subpar video/audio quality.
  • For most people, DVDs "just work".
  • Studios and manufacturers did a poor job of educating the public about the different formats.
  • Streaming/digital is too convenient for the public to consider physical media.
  • People are unable/unwilling to upgrade their tech.
  • DVDs are cheaper and more ubiquitous than Blu-rays and 4K UHD discs.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Also people bought them many years ago and they are still chugging along, so they have no desire to upgrade.