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The HT Guys HDTV and Home Theater Podcast #292 - Haggling with A/V Retailers and the EMA 2008 Annual Report
By The HT Guys
Braden Russell and Ara Derderian
Posted on July 10, 2008
Category: General Interest
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Today's Show:
With money tight and more of it going to fill up your gas tank instead of your AV rack we thought it would be a great time to discuss an article on haggling. Jennifer DeFeo has written an article for Electronic House entitled "10 Tips for Haggling with A/V Retailers". We also discuss the highlights of the Entertainment Merchant Association 2008 Annual Report.

The Mission of EMA is to promote, protect, and provide a forum for the common business interests of those engaged in the sale, rental, and licensed reproduction of entertainment software such as motion pictures, video games and sound recordings.
  • Approximately $24 billion home video market continued to be the largest segment of consumer movie spending by far, accounting for 49% of all consumer movie spending in 2007.
  • Home video generated $15.9 billion in sales and $8.2 billion in rentals in 2007.
  • Nearly 9 million high-definition discs were sold in 2007, for which consumers spent more than $260 million. But to put this number in perspective, in 2006 1.6 Billion discs were sold.
  • It is estimated that, in 2012, sales of Blu-ray Discs will exceed those of standard DVDs and will generate sales of $9.5 billion.
  • Home video spending is projected to increase to $25.6 billion in 2012.
  • Traditional rental stores, dominated by Blockbuster, accounted for 73% of the rental business in 2007. Online subscription rental (such as Netflix and Blockbuster's Total Access) were 25% of the market. Kiosk rental doubled its market share to 2%.
  • There were approximately 10,000 DVD rental kiosks operational in the U.S. at the end of 2007.
  • In 2007 video game hardware sales totaled $7.04 billion, which represented a 54 percent increase over 2006.
  • Sixty-seven percent of American heads of households play computer games.


Posted by The HT Guys, July 10, 2008 11:03 PM

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About The HT Guys

The HT Guys, Ara Derderian and Braden Russell, are Engineers who formerly worked for the Advanced Digital Systems Group (ADSG) of Sony Pictures Entertainment. ADSG was the R&D unit of the sound department producing products for movie theaters and movie studios.

Two of the products they worked on include the DCP-1000 and DADR-5000. The DCP is a digital cinema processor used in movie theaters around the world. The DADR-5000 is a disk-based audio dubber used on Hollywood sound stages.

ADSG was awarded a Technical Academy Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2000 for the development of the DADR-5000. Ara holds three patents for his development work in Digital Cinema and Digital Audio Recording.

Every week they put together a podcast about High Definition TV and Home Theater. Each episode brings news from the A/V world, helpful product reviews and insights and help in demystifying and simplifying HDTV and home theater.