{"id":275,"date":"2005-07-02T08:31:53","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T13:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=275"},"modified":"2024-06-11T12:24:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T19:24:49","slug":"entertaining-shifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Entertaining Shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek online has an informative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bwdaily\/dnflash\/jul2005\/nf2005071_7277_db035.htm\">article<\/a> on the entertainment industry&#8217;s current DVD-sales woes. The reasons for the sales slump are obviously speculative, but some of the guesses are interesting to consider. At the core of this problem is: What are people doing with their leisure time (assuming they aren&#8217;t so tired from the long work weeks that they have the energy to do anything more than sit in front of the tube)?<\/p>\n<p>One interesting bit from the article: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During its first quarter, ending May 28, Best Buy said it saw revenue declines for DVD sales that were &#8220;comparable&#8221; to the double-digit sales hikes it reported for video-game sales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the continued press about the growth in casual gaming, I&#8217;m wondering if the &#8220;fragmenting market&#8221; comment isn&#8217;t the most accurate. And perhaps some of those casual gamers who might be part of a new fragment are moving onto the harder stuff. I&#8217;m curious to know how many are female. And how many make their way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.there.com\/index.html\">There<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eagames.com\/official\/thesims\/thesimsonline\/us\/nai\/index.jsp\">The Sims Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek online has an informative article on the entertainment industry&#8217;s current DVD-sales woes. The reasons for the sales slump are obviously speculative, but some of the guesses are interesting to consider. At the core of this problem is: What are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=275\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}