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Disc market share for week ending in 2024-03-23: Aquaman 2 remains king of the sales. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 7 months ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to c/homevideo
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Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

  1. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
  2. Aliens
  3. True Lies
  4. Wish
  5. The Abyss
  6. Wonka
  7. Oppenheimer
  8. Migration
  9. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
  10. Dune: Part One
  11. Anyone But You
  12. Ferrari
  13. Poor Things
  14. Suzume
  15. The Marvels
  16. Trolls Band Together
  17. The Ring Collection
  18. The Color Purple
  19. Rick and Morty: Season 7
  20. Barbie

Source: NPD VideoScan First Alert (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

  1. Aliens
  2. True Lies
  3. The Abyss
  4. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
  5. Oppenheimer
  6. The Ring Collection
  7. Dune: Part One
  8. Wonka
  9. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
  10. Wish
  11. Creepshow
  12. Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
  13. American Psycho
  14. Total Recall
  15. K-19: The Widowmaker
  16. Dredd
  17. Spiral: From the Book of Saw
  18. Rosemary's Baby
  19. The Batman
  20. Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Source: NPD VideoScan First Alert (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

https://www.mediaplaynews.com/research/top-20-selling-blu-ray-and-4k-discs-for-week-ended-3-23-24/

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[–] phorq@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

How are this many people buying DVDs? Are these numbers counting Bluray+Dvd combos as sales for both? Because that would artificially inflate the numbers for DVDs...

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago

DVD drives are a dime a dozen. Blue ray was a bit too late to the game and streaming killed it before it could reach critical mass.

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

You'd be surprised at the amount of people who don't know what a Blu-ray is.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

ever seen a dollar bin box on the floor of a shop? great way to find weird films

[–] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How are this many people buying DVDs?

Because they are better in countless ways than Blu-rays.

[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In what ways? I thought blu-rays were just better DVDs. Except DVD players are probably cheaper.

[–] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In what ways? I thought blu-rays were just better DVDs. Except DVD players are probably cheaper.

I don't feel like laying out why but lucky both of us I explained my feelings to somebody else 3 weeks ago:

Blu-ray if I have to but I hate when filmmakers release exclusively to that format because I have to use a downstepper to convert the HDMI output they're only putting on the damned players these days and at that point just sell me a DVD. The picture quality would be comparable* and superior in the realms of ease of connecting to a computer more easily (you priced external BR drives? yeesh) and ease of watching. How many Blu-Ray players is a person liable to have, the one? Another? I hope you feel like watching it wherever they're set up. DVD you can throw in a a €9 external drive, any laptop made after 2007 and before you started needing external drives, any of a dozen cheap DVD players you may have haven't thrown away, a Playstation2, a hacked Wii, that karaoke machine you keep in your kitchen. They made mad portable players as I recall; you could watch your DVD film in a park

Also DVD menus don't utilize java. Fuck off. Much as I'm wont to point out ain't no tape ever told me [OPERATION PROHIBITED], no DVD has ever tried to connect to the internet while I watched it. Bad Disc!

Sort answer is DVDs are plenty adequate for every use case I care about while being cheaper and easier to play.

[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 1 points 7 months ago

All good points. Thanks!