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published:
05-Nov-07
territories:
France
categories:
General market development
French Blu-ray Disc promo body formed
Blu-ray Partners France (BPF) has been formed to help develop, promote and establish the Blu-ray Disc (BD) format as the hi-def successor to DVD in France. The BPF will operate at national level with the support of the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), which launched in autumn 2004. The 11 members of BPF are leading consumer electronics companies and film studios—Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, Samsung, Philips and also Gaumont Columbia-Tristar, Fox Pathé Europa, Walt Disney Studio and Warner Home Video. Based on GfK figures, BPF claims that 600,000 French households will be BD-compatible (through players and games consoles) by Christmas 2007 and estimates that around 200 BD titles will have reached the French market by year end. The BPF claims 80% of hi-def releases between mid-October and the Christmas holidays will be BD titles, though a number of these titles are also scheduled for release on HD DVD.
Our take...
Screen Digest research suggests that to date the tiny hi-def market in France is dominated by BD, however, the second largest market in Europe could prove to be a fertile ground for both hi-def formats. Local rights holders in France accounted for over 50% of the DVD market in 2006 compared with 29% in the UK (and less than 7% in the US), reducing the influence of US studios, which still predominantly support BD. Whilst HD DVDs can be produced by replicators simply upgrading DVD production lines—rather than investing in entirely new machines as they would for BD—both formats have attached independent European replicators, of which France has several. To date there have been a number of cases where films that are BD-exclusive in the US have been made available on HD DVD by European rights holders. The addition of value-added content on these discs suggests that they may be intended as imports into the US as well as for their home markets. It is likely that European rights holders of Paramount or Universal titles may choose to issue content on BD to tap into the same US imports market.
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Analyst, market intelligence & notices
Hi-def and DVD video forecasts revised
published:
14-Feb-08
territories:
Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UK - Europe
categories:
Market data/forecast revision
Richard Cooper
Reports
(2) 1-2 showing
European Digital Terrestrial Television: Market assessm...
The latest report from Screen Digest provides a detailed analysis of the European
digital terrestrial television (DTT) market in 15 Western and 4 Eastern European markets.
The report includes historical and five year forecast household and penetration data for free,
pay and top-up DTT as well as penetration numbers for cable, DTH and IPTV.
published:
21-Jan-06
territories:
Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia & Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine - Central and Eastern Europe
Guy Bisson
Chris Dziadul
Articles
DVD manufacturing-on-demand
DVD replication is suited to the on-demand model. Burn times have been reduced and the cost of components has fallen, so it is now a relatively quick and affordable procedure. The development of selfcontained replication units has made it possible for DVDs to be manufactured on-demand, and on-site, in retail stores and warehouses.
published:
23-Apr-08
territories:
Italy, France, Germany, UK, Spain, USA
Marie Bloomfield
DVD hardware overtakes the VCR
World DVD installed base outnumbers VCRs for first time
published:
01-Nov-07
territories:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea. Rep [S], Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, USA - Asia-Pacific, South and Central America, Central and Eastern Europe, Europe, International (exc.US/Canada), North America, Western Europe
David Scott
Hi-def formats compete for share
As the market for high definition DVD settles down we expect the balance to even out with a modest advantage in favour of Blu-ray
published:
14-Sep-07
territories:
USA, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, UK
Richard Cooper
European video software markets
DVD spending is stablising as the decline in prices decelerates. The East European market is catching up with the West. The market for VHS cassettes has all but disappeared completely. Growth in the DVD retail market was maintained in 2006, volume sales in Europe increasing by 10 per cent from 663.5m units in 2005 to 728.3m. Once again, however, the rise in the number of units sold did not fully translate into growth in value as the average consumer price of a retail DVD sank by eight per cent year-on-year from around €14.00 in 2005 to about €12.90 in 2006.
published:
06-Aug-07
territories:
Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK - Central and Eastern Europe, Europe, Western Europe
Marie Bloomfield
Emergent online video streaming
Europeans are spending more of their web time on streaming video than their American counterparts
published:
06-Aug-07
territories:
France, Germany, UK, USA - North America, Western Europe
James Garlick
Dual-format route ups hi-def take
Studios that release on only one high definition video format could be losing out on $272m in consumer spending in 2008
published:
06-Aug-07
territories:
France, Germany, USA, Italy, Spain, UK - North America, Western Europe
Richard Cooper
Video v cinema consumer behaviour
A comparison of video purchasing between French cinemagoers and their UK counterparts shows that the French film fans buy more and that the UK video buyers are older
published:
12-Jun-07
territories:
UK, France - Western Europe
Evi Choursanidi
Global video piracy still strong
Despite the seizure of over 130m counterfeit discs worldwide in 2006, piracy is still rife, with France, UK and Japan behind China in the top five piracy territories (by value)
published:
15-May-07
territories:
Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, UK - World
Richard Cooper
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