But on a title level, ERA analysis shows physical disc sales are still crucial to deliver the biggest hits with sales of the Top 20 films to own of the year averaging 74.1% physical and the Top 20 albums of the year averaging 61% physical.
The biggest music and video hit of the year, Hollywood musical The Greatest Showman, sold nearly two-thirds of its combined 4.3m sales on CD, DVD and Blu-ray. The biggest-selling console game of the year, FIFA 19, sold 2.5m units, around 75% on physical formats.
ERA CEO Kim Bayley said, “On a market level these figures are a stunning testament to the investment and innovation of digital services who have transformed the fortunes of an entertainment industry many had thought was doomed by the internet and piracy. Significantly in this week of HMV’s news, however, the data shows that if you want a real mass market hit, you need the reach and convenience of physical formats.
“In music even today more people buy CDs than pay for streaming subscriptions and in video more homes have DVD players than subscribe to all the leading video services put together. The challenge for physical retailers is to tap into this huge market of occasional buyers.”
Yossarian wrote:Meanwhile:
Edit: news article: https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-to-stop-making-4k-blu-ray-players-report-says/
/edit: originally posted link:
https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-stops-making-blu-ray-players-how-long-will-the-format-last/
g.man wrote:...and it'll have a built in Betamax player!
acemuzzy wrote:That doesn't need streaming, that needs an app
IIRC someone on the forum had setup their PS4 for Remote Play via their Xperia phone and could do exactly that - play their PS4 over 4G while on the bus to work.Yossarian wrote:Weirdly, Forza is one of the games I most want streaming for, not in order to actually race, but to tinker with my garage on the way to and from work so when I'm in front of my TV I can get on with the game.
Won't 5g have a massive bandwidth capacity compared to fixed line?monkey wrote:Mobile broadband might end up being more viable than digging the roads up every time we run out of bandwidth.
GooberTheHat wrote:Won't 5g have a massive bandwidth capacity compared to fixed line?monkey wrote:Mobile broadband might end up being more viable than digging the roads up every time we run out of bandwidth.
Yossarian wrote:Specs on 5G here: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/5g-imt-2020-specs/ Aiming for 1-4ms ping.
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