HMV boss says more people buying DVDs and Blu-ray

More shoppers are buying Blu-Ray and DVDs of movies and TV shows despite the rise in streaming platforms, the boss of HMV has claimed. "When streaming first came out I think a lot of people saw it as cheap and with huge breadth of choice, but I'm not sure people see it like that now," he said. The HMV boss compared the uptick in DVD sales to people buying and collecting CDs and vinyl records. DVDs sales peaked in the early 2000s, Finding Nemo becoming the biggest-selling DVD of all time, Finding Nemo, when it was released in 2003, shifting 38.8m copies. There are still some people committed to buying physical movies and TV shows so they actually own a copy, and can access it when streaming services change content libraries or remove titles.

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