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To: Whitebeard who wrote (153691)	1/4/2006 5:24:57 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793964

However, DVD sales have now flattened. A combination of switching to watching movies over cable "on demand" and a decline in movie watching due to the net.

To: Whitebeard who wrote (153691)	1/4/2006 5:25:27 PM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 793964

dvd and cd all go away , seems like they just arrived. but already obsolete in next few years.

To: Whitebeard who wrote (153691)	1/4/2006 5:31:50 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Internet downloads are waiting in the wings. I'm holding out for that. Until then, there's plenty of other stuff to watch. I don't need to see movies timely. It's been close to four decades since I felt out of it if I hadn't seen the latest movies. but DVD sales have more than made up for it. They may have made up the lost revenue from movie-goers. But if the very top DVDs sell only ten million or so copies... Well, I just divided the sales into the population of the US. It's a tiny percent. I suppose you could triple or quadruple that given a family size of three or four watching the purchased DVD, and throw in some neighbors, too, to get the number of unique viewers, but that's still nowhere near half the population, even for the very best selling kid movie. I think we have to conclude that movie making has an inherently niche market and niche markets are going to result in movies like Brokeback Mountain.