Retail sales
of DVD players, recordable and non-recordable, 2003–2007
In 2007, almost 2.4 million DVD players were
sold at a value of $439.4 million. After strong growth in 2006, sales
of recordable players slowed in 2007, increasing by 6 per cent to 454,262
units with a value of $204.2 million. Sales of non-recordable players
continued to fall.
Sales of DVD players
Average unit price
Next update March 2009
Non-recordable
Recordable
Units sold
Total value ($m)
Average price ($)
Units sold
Total value ($m)
Average price ($)
2003
1,994,871
477.37
239
19,553
23.13
1,183
2004
2,185,112
395.32
181
98,781
80.08
811
2005
2,108,787
311.72
148
284,096
159.04
560
2006
2,055,539
271.57
132
427,656
202.59
474
2007
1,906,642
235.20
123
454,262
204.20
450
Source: GfK Marketing Services.
Notes:
In 2005, GfK Marketing Services expanded its coverage of the retail
market, and began differentiating between recordable and non-recordable
units; GfK retrospectively altered the data from 2003. Data prior to
2003 is not comparable and is given separately below.
