Comments on: DVD market dropped $500m while streaming/subscription services rose 33% http://www.slashgear.com/dvd-market-dropped-500m-while-streamingsubscription-services-rose-33-04150083/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Sat, 12 May 2012 04:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/dvd-market-dropped-500m-while-streamingsubscription-services-rose-33-04150083/#comment-110858 Anonymous Wed, 04 May 2011 15:08:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=150083#comment-110858 Andrew has a good point, compare apples to apples. Other than that streaming will pick up if for nothing else than this:

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]]> By: Andrew Pollack http://www.slashgear.com/dvd-market-dropped-500m-while-streamingsubscription-services-rose-33-04150083/#comment-110830 Andrew Pollack Wed, 04 May 2011 12:06:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=150083#comment-110830 so you’re comparing $500m on the one hand to 33% on the other. Could we just use either one measure or the other so we have actual information rather than hyperbole?

My understanding is that the DVD Rental and Sales market is about $8 billion, so call that $2 billion per quarter. In that case, the market shrunk about 1/16 — about 6%.

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