Overall DVD rental numbers slip from 2009

Overall DVD rental numbers slip from 2009
April 19, 2010

The Digital Entertainment Group reports that DVD rentals dropped by 14 percent from last year. A report by McClatchy-Tribune newspapers cites two major factors in the slide: the closure of a large number of brick-and-mortar DVD rental stores and a large offloading of DVDs that occurred last year when electronics retailer Circuit City went out of business.

The report does note that sales and rentals of high-definition discs rose, and that nearly all of the increases came through sales via DVD kiosks and digital downloads.