DVD Player Sales on "Decline"
 

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2004 was the 1st year that DVD Sales went down.

2002 - 17,089,823
2003 - 21,994,389
2004 - 19,999,913

Sales for Jan 2005 looks to be about the same as Jan 2001/2002.

A total of 85,713,040 DVD players have been sold in the USA.

Not unexpected... DVD has officially hit it's peak. It was bound to happen at some point.

Everyone has a DVD player already (I got 6 of them!). There's only so many people in the world.

I agree with this more than with Josh's comment. One is more than enough for most people. I have nine. That's crazy.

DVD isn't peaked, it's just that everybody already has a player at this point. I bet DVD *disc* sales are still increasing every year.

Simply approaching market saturation. Pretty much everyone that wants one has one by now.

Fixed. I spent thousands of dollars on DVDs in 2004 but didn't need another player.

das

Yep, everyone who wants one has one.

If we're at 90 million DVD players in the USA, then it means that there's probably about one in every home on average. Even if lots of people are sitting on multiple players, that's still a pretty decent saturation. You know, not everyone is going to want to have a player.

The real test for he medium is in DVD software sales.

I got 7, don;t really need any more - I bet that alot of people are in that boat.

it has been said already, but pretty much, everyone who was in the market of getting one has gotten one or more already.

Now it's just the time to lower the prices and folks can no upgrade to better players and so forth.

I get tired of hearing about sales being down for whatever it may be out there. I live near Detroit, so of course I always hear about auto sales being down.. Then there's stores complaining over Christmas about not making as much money as expected. Boo friggin' hoo. The country is recovering financially right now, we're in a war, and as pointed out numerous times, I'm sure people are set with what they have at this point in time. But no, the industries have to go crying to the media- the world is coming to an end, people aren't spending as much money on our products anymore!! :mad:

Jesus, how many freakin' players do you all need? 7? 9? How many TVs do you have? or unless you have those little portable thingies.

We've got 2 and my DVD-ROM player on my PC and that's it.

i guess technically i have four: living room, one in my office, a portable one for road trips, and my laptop: though i've never watched on on that.

Seems like people where just making a simple observation, so relax dude.

Yeah! You go get em!

I have my main player, a portable one and my laptop has one as well. Having more than 5 dvd players is just plain crazy. :D

Since there are approximately 100,000,000 homes in the U.S. with a VCR, 70,000,000 DVD players in U.S. doesn't mean the market is "saturated." Why 70,000,000 rather than the official 85,713,040? Simple. The 2,000,000 Laserdisc households have gone through at least 3 players by now, some people have purchased 5 or more players and returns on the early defective models, probably in the millions, are not reflected in the sales stats!

That's one to chew on! :)

Ahhhhh!!!! Blu-ray is coming!!!! thje sky is falling !! SEll your DVDS nOW !

I really only need 3. My main Denon deck, a region free player and a domestic in the BR.

But I have 8, not including the PC or the X-box.

I dunno, backups? :p

No joke!!!!

Unless they have 5 kids who have one in their own bedroom, otherwise more than 3 is nuts!!!!!!!!

Blame Bush.

Bastard. :mad:

Oh, I meant no offense to the people posting or anything, just ranting about news and media. Sorry if I offended anyone. Besides, I'm at work, I'm not supposed to be in a good mood. ;)

By the way, just for the record, we've got two DVD players and one other in my computer. And one in my work computer taunting me with it's non-use.

I was about to write that you two were nuts until I realized that, counting the one in the computer, I have four. :lol:
They just sneak in the house like a long haired dead girl in a Japanese horror film!

...or posting on DVD Talk probably. :lol:

i have about 6, that's including my computer and my portable dvd player.

Total of 11 here.

-3 computers
-1 Playstation 2
-5 standalone players
-1 Portable
-1 TV/DVD player in kids room

And you guys with 8, 9, or 10 DVD players like to make fun of Joe Sixpack huh. Ahem... :)

One DVD player, one television - in the basement. The kids don't have their own TV's, nor will they ever...

When I get a projector set-up later this year, I'll probably buy another DVD player for that.

Another factor in the "saturation" is PS2 sales, which aren't included in these numbers. I know several people who use the PS2 as their primary DVD player, and there are tons of PS2s out there.

I have 5 DVD players (2 standalone, a PS2, my desktop computer and my laptop computer)

Sshh.. ;)

I have a total of 10, 1 in Theater, 1 in living room, 1 in bedroom, 2 (Dvd-rom and a DVD Burner) on my PC, 2 (DVD-rom and DVD Burner) on my server, Laptop, Xbox and PS2... yeah, thats alot...

What is significant about these figures is they show the market is becoming saturated. What will the studios/manufacturers push to spur sales? Why a new format perhaps. Anyone heard of a new format in the works? ;)

We have 6; One in the HT, one in the bedroom, two in the PC (ROM and RW) one in the laptop and a PS2.

We have a measly seven (changer in HT rack, recorder in HT rack, X-Box, portable, 2 notebooks on which we watch movies, and a desktop computer). But my Dad doesn't have any!

It's easy to have more than 5, they include them everywhere.

2 people in my house, and technically 8 DVD players

3 on TVs (1 per TV in main, computer room, main bedroom)
2 on computers (1 ea=>never use these for watching)
1 Portable (just got last week :))
2 on videogame systems (PS2, XBox=> never use these)

I have bought 4 DVD players over the past 5 years, PC DVD players are not counted in the 1st post on this thread.

1. Given my 1st DVD player on my birthday (2000)
2. Replaced player when it died (2 years) with surround sound system
3. Replaced Surround Sound system when it died (1 1/2 years) with better Surround Sound system (Still working)
4. Bought another unit for my kids room (system died within one year)


5. I do have a DVD player in my PC that I never use
6. I do have an Xbox that my son now use as a DVD player, but this also does not count in the data in the 1st post

Out of the 85,713,040 DVD players sold, the number of households has to be only 50 million because of systems breaking, user upgrading and people wanting extra systems in their house.

Thats why I said we're approaching market saturation. :D Thus sales are slowing down, but not to the full saturation point where the only people buying players are those getting an additional one, replacing a broken one, or young people moving into their own place.

Wow! I guess I should feel deprived since I have only one DVD player. Don't even have a DVD drive on my computer. My old DVD player I sold to a friend (and it is still going strong) when I upgraded to progressive scan several years ago.

Not into accumulating gadgets I guess. If it works I don't fuss with it.

I've bought 6 DVD Players since 1999 when I bought my first one. I didn't buy them just to collect more players. There is a reason for so many players. My first one was a Toshiba. It has some problem when I use it to browse special features on a DVD and would lock up. I shipped it back to Toshiba for repair. They returned it but it still had problem. So when an Apex all region DVD player was on sale, I bought that. But that player has some audio problem. I can hear popping sound when I start playing a movie. So when Onkyo had a refurbished DVD player/receiver on sale, I bought it as my 3rd player. Well, it has video pixelation problem because of the problem with its mpeg decoder. I took it in video store to get it repaired. Then it had problem with discs popping out of the tray when I eject it. So I had to take it in for a 2nd time to get it repaired! So when Sony had a 400-disc DVD player onsale, I bought that as my 4th player. Then I start noticing that after I play my DVD with Sony player, the disc would have a circular mark gouged in the disc surface. I stopped playing with my Sony Player and shipped it back to Sony for repair. Then Circuit City had another sale with a combo Sony DVD Player + Receiver, so I bought it as my 5th player because my other Sony was still in the shop. So far this Sony DVD Player + Receiver hasn't had any defects like my previous players. *crossing my fingers* Oh yeah, my 6th player is a DVD-ROM drive on my PC that I have for a few years. My DVD-ROM drive doesn't play a lot of DVD. Also, the eject tray sometimes doesn't work.

So now you know the reason why I have so many DVD players. :D

Each of my players has a purpose.

1) region-free player (my main player; won't play DVD-Rs though)

2) DVD recordable (make my own DVDs either from TV or convert PAL to NTSC or transfer VHS to DVD)

3) PS2 (plays ANYTHING in my region)

4) DVD-+RW on my PC (use this to copy DVDs (concerts, pro-wrestling stuff and all that))

5) RCA player in my bedroom

6) my VHS in my bedroom died, so I needed a new one. The only good deals I could get was a VHS/DVD combo, so I have two players in my bedroom.

7) DVD player in my other, older PC (not used); also my X-BOX works as a DVD player, but I don't use it for that either.

I own four- one on PC; one in great room; one in office; one in bedroom (though not hooked up yet).