Neil Joseph
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I have 10 on the list. The Spiderman numbers are impressive after just 3 days.
but now I wonder with market expansion if most players aren't actually in homes where families only own maybe 5-10 personal favs and another 5-10 current hits (the impulse buys mentioned before, especially during the initial ownership period).That is my experience with the "non-enthusiast" crowd. Someone who's, say, really into baseball and therefore baseball movies might grab a few "classics" like Bull Durham, The Natural, & Pride of the Yankees. Then he might grab a few of the big films that "everyone is talking about" IF he can grab at super-low prices (i.e., We Were Soldiers as an example).
Someone like that, who's more of a "watch it once and you've seen the film" kind of guy, probably sell off the latter type of thing after a couple of months. Typically at a easy-to-get-to Used DVD store that will pay him cash.
To whoever said that the numbers on this list probably include stock sitting on a shelf at Blockbuster: BINGO. I'm sure these are based on sell-to-retailer numbers, and NOT on sellthrough-to-customer numbers.
So not ONLY does it include stock sitting on the shelf at rental stores like Blockbuster, it also includes stuff bought en masse by consumers, and then sold en masse to used outlets (can't tell you how many used copies of Riding in Cars With Boys I saw at FuncoLand the other day...but it was a LOT!). It also includes unsold stock sitting on the shelf at Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Costco, and even Kroger (right now that includes Spider-Man...I see a LOT of the supposedly "Limited Edition" hanging around WM & BB this weekend). This probably includes unsold stock sitting in the warehouses of these retailers.
Heh...I wonder if any numbers are ever backed out of those "sales figures" if a retailer returns massive quantities of unsold merchandise for credit? Probably not!
If you look at the makeup of the list, you'll notice that it consists of all of those titles who got announcements by their studio about how - at the time - each was "the biggest selling DVD to date". So there's no contest as to how these titles got on that list. The question is, does it really reflect what are in peoples homes? I own almost 1700 discs...OF COURSE I own most of that stuff!! But the average consumer - even the average DVD entusiast with a down-to-Earth collection! - probably won't.
My 2¢
Okay Joel, now you have me wondering, What is the 1 dvd that you don't own?Thanks for asking, Brian.
American Pie II (though I do own the 'original' American Pie :b )
I guess it just didn't rise to the level of interest/curiosity I had about the first film
Joel
I don't get why some of us seem to feel we have to apologize for our DVD purchases.I do. I’ve bought some DVDs and after some period, thought, “What was I thinking?”.
Owning a DVD that one does not like (perhaps on reflection) is different than apologizing for liking a particular movie. You can like what you like. But that is different than always having bought what you like.
Or am I the only one who has erred in a purchase?