What proportion of all DVDs sold in the U.S. are sold through Internet
retailers? (Unit sales in both channels would also be appreciated --
but is not necessary.)

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 05 Apr 2006 10:49 PDT

Terpfan91,

I can provide you with :

- Total 2003 dollar DVDs and VHS tapes sales in the U.S. 
- The percentage of those sales that were made online

- Total 2004 dollar DVDs and VHS tapes sales in the U.S. 
- The percentage of those sales that were made online

- Total 2003 dollar DVD sales in the U.S. (No breakdown if online or offline)
- Total 2004 dollar DVD sales in the U.S. (No breakdown if online or offline)
- Total 2005 dollar DVD sales in the U.S. (No breakdown if online or offline)

Please let me know via the CLARIFICATION feature if these figures
would suit your purpose?

Thank you, 
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by terpfan91-ga on 06 Apr 2006 08:57 PDT

Hi Bobbie7,

Yes. That will work. Thanks!

Hello again Terpfan91,

My findings are as follows:


Total 2003 dollar DVDs and VHS tapes sales in the U.S. 
--- $14.4 billion 

The percentage of those sales that were made online
--- 8.8% online

Total 2004 dollar DVDs and VHS tapes sales in the U.S. 
---  $16.6 billion

The percentage of those sales that were made online
---   9.8% online


Excerpt:

?U.S. consumers are indeed buying more of their movies online each
year. Adams Media Research said that $12.2 billion in DVDs and VHS
tapes were sold in the U.S. in 2002, and 6.3% of them were purchased
online. A year later it was $14.4 billion with 8.8% coming from online
sales, and sales were $16.6 billion in 2004, 9.8% from online.?

Hollywoood Reporter: July 2005
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:x86g2j1KbLsJ:channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp%3Fid%3D2005072603010002695752%26dt%3D20050726030100%26w%3DRTR%26coview%3D+%22adams++media++research+%22++%22were++purchased++online%22++&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1



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- Total 2003 dollar DVD sales in the U.S. (No breakdown if online or offline)
---$12 billion

Total 2004 dollar DVD sales in the U.S. (No breakdown if online or offline)
----$15.5 billion 

- Total 2005 dollar DVD sales in the U.S. (No breakdown if online or offline)
---$15.7 billion


Sources of information:

Total DVD sales
- 2004 sales, $15.5 billion
- 2003 sales, 12 billion 

USA Today January 5, 2005 
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2005-01-05-dvd-sales-inside_x.htm


?For full year 2005, DVD sales were two and a half times as large as
DVD rentals ($15.7 billion vs. $6.7 billion) but DVD rentals grew
almost four times as much as DVD sales (+16.9% vs. +4.5%).?

Video Business
http://www.videobusiness.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6313808



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Additional information that might interest you:

1.2 billion DVDs were sold in 2004 according to the paragraph below.

?DVD may have driven the home video industry to a record year in 2004,
but some industry observers see hurdles ahead in 2005.

Overall home video revenue rose to nearly $24.5 billion, up 9% from
2003. But prices continued to drop, reducing hit titles to commodities
sold at supermarkets and truck stops.

An estimated 1.2 billion DVDs were sold last year, but no individual
title could match the pace set in 2003 by Finding Nemo.?

Anythingbut: January 05, 2005
http://anythingbut.com/archive/2005_01.html


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Search terms
DVD unit OR title  sales billion 2004..2006 percent online

I hope the information provided is helpful!

Best regards, 
Bobbie7

Nice explanation, timely and complete. Thanks!