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Article: The NPD Group: TV-DVDs Soften Video Sales Decline.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- October 24, 2006
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TV on DVD genre shows 25 percent gain in 2006 - 9 percent of total DVD sales;
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PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -- Over the past decade, the DVD sales category has enjoyed tremendous growth from year to year. More recently, however, overall DVD sales growth has slowed considerably. According to The NPD Group, a leading consumer and retail information company, through June 2006 the DVD business increased unit volume sales by 4 percent over the first half of 2005; but that's half the rate of growth that NPD saw last year. One of the key reasons DVDs have not slid even further is the ...