{"id":9041,"date":"2005-07-26T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/26\/the-dvd-boom-is-over\/"},"modified":"2005-07-26T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-26T14:44:00","slug":"the-dvd-boom-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/the-dvd-boom-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The DVD Boom is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/home\/7266.html\" target=\"_blank\">ICv2 research<\/a>, the boom market for DVDs in America has passed. ICv2 reports that American home video sales for the first half of 2005 increased by only 1.1%. In relation to the American anime industry, ICv2 claims that anime has been able to cling to its 1.5% share of the North American home video market based mainly on the sales of, &#8220;top tier titles such as Miyazaki&#8217;s Nausicaa.&#8221; &#8220;Extremely poor sales on &#8216;B&#8217; and &#8216;C&#8217; level titles and licensing costs make it difficult for American anime companies to lower prices &#8212; the average anime MSRP has only gone from $27.97 in 1997 to $26.11 in 2005.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ICv2 research, the boom market for DVDs in America has passed. ICv2 reports that American home video sales for the first half of 2005 increased by only 1.1%. In relation to the American anime industry, ICv2 claims that anime has been able to cling to its 1.5% share of the North American home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}