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I think it's mostly because of the economy. I know of plenty of people who, a few years ago, would buy DVDs every single Tuesday -- even ones they hadn't seen. I doubt many people have the expendable (or seemingly expandable) income to do that today.
DVD Shipments Dropped 44% in 2010
A SNL Kagan study of DVD shipments in 2010 found a huge drop in DVD Sales, not yet offset by Blu-ray, Netflix and VOD. We tracked 415 titles in our database that were released on DVD in 2010, and among those titles, wholesale revenue dropped a shocking 43.9% from $7.97 billion in 2009 to $4.47...
Some great movies already mentioned. Here's a few that I liked a lot: "The Staircase" (really a mini-series, but addictive), "Overnight," "Off the Charts," "Inside Deep Throat," "Atlantic Records," "After Innocence," "Brother's Keeper," "The Hobart Shakespeareans," "Bukowski: Born into this," "Touching the Void," "God Grew Tired of Us," "Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life," "Young @ heart," "Waco: The Rules of Engagement," "Little Dieter needs to Fly," "Margot," "Z channel," "The Loss of Nameless Things," "Cinemania," "A touch of Greatness," "In the Shadow of the Moon," "Nobody Listened" and one of my favorites, "Tom Dowd and the Language of Music."
Netflix Helps Documentaries Find Viewers
I originally joined Netflix in 2002 because they had movies I couldn't find at any local video store (I live in a small town). I have since enjoyed a number of excellent documentaries and smaller films, including Man on Wire, Sicko, Gonzo, Manda Bala, and more. Patrol Magazine reminded me why ...
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