Consumer spending for home entertainment either improved slightly in 2016, or fell at an accelerating rate, depending on how you want to tally the year-end data out today from the Digital Entertainment Group. The industry organization includes streaming services such as Netflix, but historically hasn’t included some…

Home entertainment spending in Q3 was either up 3.8% or down 12.1% — depending on how you want to interpret the numbers out today from the Digital Entertainment Group. The trade group likes the upbeat number, which tallies consumer rental and purchase spending at $4.17 billion, up from $4.02 billion in the period last…

Home entertainment spending either increased by 6.1% in Q2, or fell 0.3%, based on data out today from The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG). The trade group says that consumers spent $4.33 billion in the quarter, up from $4.08 billion in the same period last year. But DEG includes consumer payments for subscription…

Depending on how you look at it, home entertainment spending was either stable — or seriously declined — in Q1 based on data out today from the Digital Entertainment Group. The industry organization says that consumers spent $4.55 billion in the period, down just 1.8% from early 2015. In addition to being “in line…

The answer depends on whether you believe it’s appropriate to include streaming services led by Netflix in the spending tally that DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group released today. The industry organization does, saying that U.S. home entertainment spending hit nearly $4.6 billion in Q1, a 0.2% increase over the…

Streaming services led by Netflix, plus time shifting, hurt home entertainment spending far more in 2014 than you would have thought from last week’s year-end report from DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group – and will continue to damage the industry in 2015 – MoffettNathanson Research’s Michael Nathanson says this…

Hollywood continued to have a slipped disc problem in 2014: Consumer spending for home video dropped slightly after two years of relatively flat sales according to data out today from DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. Buyers spent $17.8 billion to buy or rent videos last year, a 1.8% drop from 2013. That follows…

The LA-based Digital Entertainment Group marked its 17th year as the home entertainment industry's leading association by promoting Amy Jo Smith to President. In addition to promoting Smith, the DEG realigned its Steering Committee positions for the 2013-14 fiscal year. Vice Chairs will be David Bishop, President…

The continuing decline in DVD sales, and disc rentals at bricks-and-mortar stores and subscription services led by Netflix, continued to weigh the business down according to data out today from DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. It reports that consumers spent $5.66B in Q4, a 1.5% drop vs the period last year. That…

Consumers spent $3.9B in the quarter, up just 0.24% vs. the period last year, according to data out today from DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. But the real story is about the continuing shift in where people spend. Sales of packaged goods — which includes both DVDs and Blu-ray discs — fell 4% to $1.67B. DVDs…

The LA-based Digital Entertainment Group marked its 16th year as the home entertainment industry's leading association with the announcement of its new Board of Directors and Officers. They serve as the Steering Committee for the 2012-13 fiscal year (August 1 – July 31). New to the Board are Bill Sondheim of Gaiam…

By a hair, I mean a 1.4% gain in total consumer rental and purchase spending to $8.4B, according to data released today by DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. Netflix and, to a lesser extent, Amazon and Hulu Plus deserve most of the credit for the uptick: Spending on subscription streaming services was up 430.2% to…