DVD Player Revenues Projected To Decline

Press Release: Strategy Analytics, a global research and consulting firm, has released a report "DVD Players and Recorders: Global Market Forecast," predicting that global DVD player revenues will fall for the first time ever this year (i.e., a 1 percent decrease to $19.8 billion, after peaking at $20.1 billion in 2004.)

As prices continue to drop for higher value DVD recorders, they are slowly beginning to replace regular players...However, this trend is not expected to prevent a continued fall in overall revenues for the sector as DVD recorder sales will continue to grow rapidly - overtaking play-only devices in 2008 and reaching annual sales of 90.9 million units in 2010...

"The global transition from play-only DVD players to DVD Recorders is well under way," says Peter King, Director of the Strategy Analytics Connected Home service. "High prices and product complexity have held back demand for DVD Recorders, but these factors are now diminishing."