Although we see an increase of broadband users and growing popularity of online video, we can conclude that the vast majority of youths still rent and buy DVDs. An online poll from Knowledge Networks concludes this after focussing their question on Generation Y (ranging 13-29) and Generation X (ranging 30-43). As expected the research showed that online video downloads were more popular with Gen Y (37%) and X (18%) than with the baby boomers (11%).
Besides this we saw that 52% of Gen Y streamed video compared to 37% of Gen X and 21% of the young baby boomers, but most importantly both Gen Y and X stated to consider themselves DVD users. Ninety-eight of both generations said this, although we do see a group testing online streaming and watching.
The research shows how popular DVD is and how well it is adopted with 71% of Gen X and 67% of Gen Y users buying DVDs monthly. That Gen X is spending slightly more on DVDs probably is caused by the income difference.
@ Random Guy
Which, probably, speaks about the type of people who visit or, at least, vote on cdfreaks' polls... 
Why is black or white? I buy blurays (used to buy dvds) and i also download. So I do both.. because it'd be physically impossible to buy everything. I'm guessing alot of other people do that, buy ones they really like, download other ones.
I hardly buy any DVDs anymore. I download. However, I don't think they lost anything because even if I hadn't downloaded the movie, I still wouldn't have bought it.@ Vic_M
"It's been said multiple times on this site, but people will NOT re-buy their collections yet again in hi-def format, it's just NOT going to happen."
Well, here's the rub. When I went from VHS to DVD I did re-buy my collection. I consider DVD to be hi-def to VHS. However, I won't re-buy going from DVD to Blu-ray. In fact, I will avoid Blu-ray until the next format. It's the same as people waiting to go from Windows XP to Windows 7, skipping Vista entirely. It's perceived value for your money. Why get Blu-ray when a good upsampling DVD player can get you close enough? Some of us have hundreds of DVD movies, and re-buying them in Blu-ray just isn't an option.
This message was edited at: 07-07-2008 20:11
I've repurchased a few of my favorites on bluray, but for the most part my bluray collection are new releases from the past year, or discs i never got around to buying on dvd. I'm not going to keep buying dvd, so through attrition I'm guessing my bluray collection will get better than dvd.Top news
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