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Reports

Blu-Ray Disc Consumers Profiled | 09 Sep 10 tags › | The proportion of Blu-ray discs bought by 25-45 year olds rose to over 70 per cent in 2009, up from around 60 per cent in the previous year. Meanwhile one third of consumers now buy Blu-rays for family use, and less buy them for gifts. This report on consumer profiles of Blu-ray consumers in the UK also reveals that the number of consumers who know that BD players can also play DVDs is worryingly ...

European Video Market Treads Water | 13 Aug 10 tags › | This is an overview of the European video market in 2009 and Screen Digest's latest analysis on the market's outlook for 2010. In 2009 total European video volumes sales recorded their first ever year-on-year decline despite growth in Blu-ray Disc sales. Other areas of growth are digital video and TV VOD but so far these sectors only account for a small part of the European market. However, prelim...

The Global Trade in Audio-visual Archives | 07 Aug 10 tags › | The global trade in audio-visual archive content generates Euro 364m in revenue a year and has grown in value at a compound annual growth rate of nearly five per cent over the past five years according to findings of a new study from Screen Digest and trade bodies FOCAL International and FIAT/IFTA. The customer base for audiovisual archive content has grown rapidly in recent years with the tradit...

Analyst commentary

French market continues to thrive; forecasts adjusted upwards | 07 Sep 10 tags › | Despite retail promotions, decline in average DVD prices has decelerated Blu-ray Disc is performing better than expected Overall video market now expected to show growth in both volume and value in 2010...

Correction: French Blu-ray Disc unit sales 2009 | 07 Sep 10 tags › | Screen Digest has updated its 2009 historic Blu-ray Disc (BD) numbers for France in line with official data from the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC). According to CNC, BD unit sales totalled 5.3m...

Japanese rental shipments decline steeply in H1 2010 | 16 Aug 10 tags › | Total video rental shipments down 15.9% in H1 2010 Rental DVD shipments fell 17.1%, resulting in decline of 23% in revenues BD has done little to offset the decline in rental DVD sales Japanese video...

Presentations

The outlook for packaged media | 25 Mar 10 | Head of video Helen Davis Jayalath presents Screen Digest's forecast to 2014 of packaged video spending in Europe, at the 2010 PEVE conference. The presentation shows how Blu-ray, digital delivery and TV video-on-demand will impact on total consumer video spending.

Strategies for digital success: The future in context | 25 Mar 10 tags › | Screen Digest's director of digital media research Arash Amel looks back at our forecasts for the online movie space four years ago to assess whether our then controversial views have been realised. It looks at how much revenues are being made in major markets out of online movie VoD, and compares this with our 2006 forecasts. Plus, which business models are the most successful with the studios, a...