Monday, January 13, 2020

For the period ending December 31, 2019 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database



 

DVD New Additions
DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey

 

1091 MEDIA (MOD)
12/24/19 — Released Only You

Aroga Yoga (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released Yoga for Chronic Illness and Yoga for Insomnia

Barlates Body Blitz (MOD)
12/24/19 — Released Barlates Body Blitz: Grace and Strength Series, Barlates Body Blitz: Loop Chisel Series, Barlates Body Blitz: Mat Interval Series, Barlates Body Blitz: Old School Series, Barlates Body Blitz: Tone It Series and Barlates Body Blitz: Yoga Wheel Pilates Series
12/31/19 — Released Barlates Body Blitz: Body Blast Series, Barlates Body Blitz: Bounce Series, Barlates Body Blitz: Fit in 5 Glide Series, Barlates Body Blitz: HIIT Series, Barlates Body Blitz: Pilates Abs Fushion, Barlates Body Blitz: Resistance Band Series, Barlates Body Blitz: Stretch Flex Tone Series and Barlates Body Blitz: Sweat Series
01/07/20 — Released Barlates Body Blitz: Chisel It Series and Barlates Body Blitz: Standing and Mat Abs

Bayview Entertainment
02/11/20 — Sets My Tiny Universe, Nerve, NetherBeast Incorporated, New World Order (aka: Noon Blue Apples), Night of the Rat (Spanish), Omnivores (Spanish), Ordinary Days, Other People's Children, Pale Blue Moon, Paraguay Drugs and Banana (Spanish) and Pearl Diver
02/18/20 — Sets Perfect Pickup, Portrait of an Animal Behavior (Spanish), Pretend One, Punch the Clock (Portuguese), Rabbit Woman (Spanish), Road of No Return and Road to Hell (Italian)
02/25/20 — Sets Final Draft, Finding Joy, Flirting with Flemenco, Roman's Circuit (Spanish), Savage Island, Selling God, Shadow Walkers and Theatre of Terror

Blue Forge Films (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released Best of Seriously Cereal (3 disc set)

Boondoggle Films (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released Colored Frames

C Vision Productions (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released Iowa Interstate in Transition: 1999 – 2010

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released My Three Sons: The Fifth Season, Volume 1 (3 disc set) and My Three Sons: The Fifth Season, Volume 2 (3 disc set)

CMI Education/PESI Publishing
12/31/19 — Released Ethics: Top 10 Mistakes Made by Mental Health Professionals

Championship Productions
12/17/19 — Released Morphing 1-3-1 to 3-2 Zone Defense
12/24/19 — Released 4-Out 1-In Dribble Hand-Off Motion Offense, 94' of Pressure Defense, Half Court Defensive Essentials, Jamion Christian: 30 of My Favorite Offensive Sets and Pistol Offense Set Plays & Counters

Coaches Choice Publishing
12/24/19 — Released 4 Year Progression: Training Race Selection Goal Setting Psychology - For Boys & Girls, Fourth Energy System and Priming for Performance and Recovery
12/31/19 — Released Not in My House: Becoming A Defensive Force Around the Basket, Rebounding Like the Pros and Taking Candy From A Baby: Scoring at the Low Post

Conscious Films (MOD)
12/24/19 — Released Dr. Amos Wilson: Negro Assimilation, Part 2

Dark Wave Films (MOD)
12/17/19 — Released Offerings: Ultimate Collector's Edition

EWTN
12/17/19 — Released Life on the Rock: Craig Morgan - Living the Catholic Faith and Succeeding in Secular Country Music and World Over with Raymond Navarro: Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Fr. Gerald Murray, Robert Royal and Monica Fitzgibbons
12/24/19 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Danielle Rose / Celebrating A Joyful, Catholic Christmas With Your Family, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Jim and Joy Pinto Answer Viewer Calls, Questions, And E-Mails Live From the Pinto House, Called to Communion, EWTN Live: Fr. Mitch Pacwa Special Show for Christmas / New - A Polish Christmas and Life on the Rock: MFVA Friars - Christmas Show with Only Friars
12/31/19 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Best of the Year, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Jim and Joy Pinto Answer Viewer Calls, Questions, And E-Mails Live From the Pinto House, Called to Communion, EWTN Live: Rev. Professor Dieter Hattrup - How the Sciences Support Theology, Journey Home: Mac and Katherine Barron / Former Evangelical Protestants and Life on the Rock: MFVA Friars Look Back at 2019
01/07/20 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Angie Thomas & Allison Millet / Fruitful Work Of The Women'S New Life Center, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Jim and Joy Pinto Answer Viewer Calls, Questions, And E-Mails Live From the Pinto House, Called to Communion, EWTN Live: Michael Greaney -Ten Battles Every Catholic Should Know, Journey Home: Patrick Flynn - Catholic Revert, Former Atheist and Life on the Rock: Sister Miriam Heidland - 2019 Seek Conference Hosted by Focus

Edward Harshman (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released Challenge the Change Agents and Why Liberal Bias in the Media

Emblematic Pictures (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released Last Ferry

Emmett Loverde Sound & Picture (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released Do You Believe?: Santa's Letters and She's Out of His Mind

FUNimation
12/17/19 — Released Hetalia 10th Anniversary World Party Colllection 1 (4 disc set)

Get Digital World (MOD)
12/24/19 — Released Art of Turning Visitors Into Paying Customers, Authority Backlinks Avalanche, Big Business Blueprint Training, Email Marketing So Simple Even Your Kids Can Do It, Internet Entrepreneurs Master Focus Course, Make Your Business the Ultimate Success Story with Business SEO, Professional Screencasting for Dummies and Ultimate Email Marketing Strategies Exposed
12/31/19 — Released Dare To Turn Your Dreams Into Reality,  eCommerce Made Easy, How To Become A Top Influencer With A Powerful Influential Blog, Lose Weight And Reboot Your Metabolism With The Keto Diet and Make Money Without Being Scammed - Zero Cost! (2 disc set)

Giant Interactive (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released Jim Allison: Breakthrough (ARR of 95 days; box office: $63,970)

Grapevine Videos (MOD)
12/24/19 — Released Fighting Devil Dogs (12 chapter serial) (2 disc set), Marion Davis (2 film set: April Folly (silent-1920), Buried Treasure (silent-1921)) and Roy Rogers Double Feature (2 film set: Trail of Robin Hood, Heart of the Golden West)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)
12/24/19 — Released Bully, Drag Kids, Ghost Who Walks and Love Possibly
12/31/19 — Released Heritage and Shred America

Hope of the World (MOD)
12/24/19 — Released Magician Heart and Miracle in the Darkness

Humanist Learning Systems (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released How to Handle Cranky Customers Using Behavioral Science, How to Prevent Passive Aggressive People from Wreaking Havoc Using Science and Humanistic Conflict Management (6 disc set)

I-Cine
12/31/19 — Released Bach Nuong Tu Truyen Ky (12 disc set), Gia Dinh Vestron, Part 1 (14 disc set), Gia Dinh Vestron, Part 2 (14 disc set), Khong Loi Thoai (15 disc set) and Yeu Anh La Dieu Khong The (12 disc set)

Icarus Films
02/25/20 — Sets In Safe Hands (French) (ARR of 214 days; box office: $1,737)

Image Entertainment
12/24/19 — Released Adopt a Highway

Japananime
12/17/19 — Released Boin Lecture, Volume 1, Boin Lecture, Volume 2, Boobalicious, Volume 1, Boobalicious, Volume 2, Cambrian, Volume 1, Cambrian, Volume 2, Dark Chapel, Volume 1, Dark Chapel, Volume 2, Desperate Carnal Housewives, Volume 1, Desperate Carnal Housewives, Volume 2, Insatiable, Volume 1, Mistreated Bride, Volume 1, Mistreated Bride, Volume 2, Mistreated Bride, Volume 3, Mistreated Bride, Volume 4, Necromancer, Volume 1, Taboo Charming Mother, Volume 1, Taboo Charming Mother, Volume 2, Taboo Charming Mother, Volume 3, Taboo Charming Mother, Volume 4, Taboo Charming Mother, Volume 5 and Taboo Charming Mother, Volume 6

Katie Cooper Film (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released Easy as Pi: 10th Anniversary Edition and In the Spotlight

Kino Lorber
01/21/20 — Sets Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (ARR of 116 days; box office: $104,758)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment
12/24/19 — Released Gallows: Act II and Kill Team
02/18/20 — Sets Midway (ARR of 102 days; box office: $56,547,282)

MVD Entertainment Group
03/17/20 — Sets Clay Pigeon

Margaret Shaw Johnson Productions (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released Mister James & Mister Jeff

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released Sin

PBS Direct
12/24/19 — Released Zero Tolerance
12/31/19 — Released Nature: Under Cover in the Jungle

PCN Productions (MOD)
01/07/20 — Released 2020 PA Farm Show: Pony Pull, 2020 PA Farm Show: Rabbit Hopping, 2020 PA Farm Show: Sale of Champions, 2020 PA Farm Show: Sheep Herding, 2020 PA Farm Show: Sheep to Shawl and 2020 PA Farm Show: Square Dance

PR Studios
12/31/19 — Released Peter Pan (silent-1915)

Paramount Home Media
02/04/20 — Sets Playing With Fire (ARR of 88 days; box office: $44,406,890)

Pentrex
12/24/19 — Released Rotariers 2: Battle to Open Donner Pass

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)
12/17/19 — Released Die Verzauberte Marie (German)
12/24/19 — Released Der Verlorene (German)

Reliance
12/24/19 — Released Super 30 (Hindi)

Rogue Video (MOD)
12/24/19 — Released Beast of Yucca Flats and Corpse Vanishes
12/31/19 — Released Legacy of Blood (aka: Will to Die), Revolt of the Zombies and Tormented

SM Productionz
12/17/19 — Released Arrow and Itoshito by Zee
12/31/19 — Released Split by EVM

Smart Mark Video (MOD)
12/24/19 — Released Chikara: King of Trios (3 disc set), Combat Zone Wrestling: Cage of Death XXI - Voorhees, NJ, Fight or Die: Chairman Where Art Thou - Indianapolis, IN, Game Changer Wrestling: Nick Gage Invitational 4 - Summit, IL, IWA Mid-South: Season's Beatings 2019 - Jeffersonville, IN and Star Pro Wrestling: Holiday Chaos - Warminster, PA

Solaris Pictures
12/31/19 — Released Breaking Free

Sony Pictures Home Ent.
02/18/20 — Sets Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (ARR of 88 days; box office: $58,801,961)

The Film Collectors Society (MOD)
12/24/19 — Released 2017 Emmy Awards, Adventures of Paula Peril, Alphabet Killer, America's Music: Chicago and All That Jazz, Audience With Joan Rivers, Biography: Deborah Kerr, Bonanza: Gabrielle, Chance of a Lifetime, Cielito Lindo (Spanish), Comedy Capers (2 disc set), Concert Behind Prison Walls, Diagnosis Murder: Hard Boiled Murder, Diana Ross Concert at Central Park, Diana Ross: Here I Am, Diana Ross Live at Royal Albert Hall, Diana Ross Live in New York, Dick Cavett Show: 9/24/1986, Dinah!: 2/26/1976, Ed Wynn Show: 10/13/1949, Evening With Mel Brooks, Evening With Sir Peter Ustinov, General (silent-1926), Golden Globe Awards Collection (2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004) (2 disc set), Hijack!, Hoagy, The Old Music Master: BBC – 1982, Hollywood Goddesses with Michael Moellering, Hollywood Remembers Mary Astor, Hornet's Nest, Howdy Doody Show (4 episodes), Incredible Hulk: My Favorite Magician, Jack Paar Show: September 8, 1954, Jerry Lee Lewis: Great Hits on TV, Perjura Jorge Negrete, Judge Roy Bean (6 episodes), Laugh-In (20 disc set), Manhattan Theatre Club: The Little Foxes (2 disc set), Merv Griffin Tribute to 42nd. Street - 2/10/1984, Standing Room Only: 25 Years of Jerry Lee Lewis - A Celebration and True Justice: Deadly Crossing
12/31/19 — Released Arrowhead, Arsene Lupin Returns, Behave Yourself, Belle of Old Mexico, Black Magic, Blood on the Arrow, Broadway Limited, Captain Pirate, Case of the Howling Dog, Christmas Tree, Desert Song, Desire in the Dust, Dr. Monica, Double Deal, Dragon Murder Case, Edge of Darkness, Elephant Boy, Emergency Wedding, First Hundred Years, Five Pennies, Four Faces West, Front Page Woman, Gentlemen are Born, Gun the Man Down, Hell's Outpost, High and the Mighty, Imitation of Life, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Kisses For My President, Lady Liberty, Legion of the Lawless, The Lion, Living on Velvet, Lorna Doone, Lucky Nick Cain, Lydia Bailey, Madame X, Man Hunt, Man in the Saddle, Man with My Face, Marshal of Mesa City, Million Dollar Legs and Wyoming (aka: Bad Man from Wyoming)

The Teaching Company, LLC
12/31/19 — Released Fighting Misinformation: Digital Media Literacy (2 disc set), Getting Your Legal House in Order (3 disc set), Going to the Devil: The Impeachment of 1868, Historian Goes to the Movies: Ancient Rome (2 disc set) and Liberty on Trial in America: Cases That Defined Freedom (4 disc set)

20th Century-Fox Home Ent.
02/11/20 — Sets Ford vs. Ferrari (ARR of 88 days; box office: $109,976,339)

Ultra DVD (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released Petta (Tamil)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.
02/04/20 — Sets Last Christmas (ARR of 88 days; box office: $35,086,485)
02/18/20 — Sets 21 Bridges (ARR of 88 days; box office: $28,265,017)
03/03/20 — Sets Queen & Slim (ARR of 95 days; box office: $42,663,370)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.
01/28/20 — Sets Motherless Brooklyn (ARR of 88 days; box office: $9,286,933)
02/04/20 — Sets Good Liar (ARR of 81 days; box office: $17,039,302)

Wild Eye Releasing (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released Witch Behind the Door (Italian)

Wolfe
04/07/20 — Sets More Beautiful for Having Been Broken



Blu-ray New Additions

 

123 Go Films
01/07/20 — Released Mine 9

Arrow Video
03/03/20 — Sets Kansas City

Bangor Films (MOD)
01/07/20 — Released Between Something & Nothing

Daily Company
12/31/19 — Released Way Home (Korean)

Eastern Star
12/24/19 — Released Galaxy Express 999: Collection One - Departure (6 disc set), Giant Robo OVA Series (3 disc set), Metabots: The Complete First Season (2 disc set) and Yowamushi Pedal Grande Road (4 disc set)

Echo Bridge Home Ent.
01/07/20 — Released Broken Swords: The Last in Line (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Jack Hunter and the Star of Heaven (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Wild Bunch on Ice (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Emmett Loverde Sound & Picture (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released She's Out of His Mind

FUNimation
01/07/20 — Released Certain Magical Index: Season Three, Part One (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Spice and Wolf: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Yu Yu Hakusho: The Complete Third Season (4 disc set) and Zombie Land Saga: Season One (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

Grapevine Videos (MOD)
12/24/19 — Released Fighting Devil Dogs (12 chapter serial) (2 disc set), Marion Davis (2 film set: April Folly (silent-1920), Buried Treasure (silent-1921)) and Roy Rogers Double Feature (2 film set: Trail of Robin Hood, Heart of the Golden West)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)
12/24/19 — Released Bully, Drag Kids, Ghost Who Walks and Love Possibly
12/31/19 — Released Heritage and Shred America
01/07/20 — Released 2nd Date Sex, Bet, Christmas Kid (aka: The Return of the Yuletide Kid), Cosmos, Limerence and Red Dog

Image Entertainment
01/07/20 — Released Nightshifter (Portuguese) and Shed

Kino Lorber
01/07/20 — Released Brick, Chained for Life, Cobra Woman, Doctor Cyclops, Hellbenders, Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (Italian), Slasher and Specialists (Italian)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment
12/24/19 — Released Gallows: Act II (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Kill Team (with Digital Copy)
12/31/19 — Released Primal (with Digital Copy)
02/18/20 — Sets Midway (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

MPI Home Video
01/07/20 — Released Girl on the Third Floor

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)
12/31/19 — Released Sin
01/07/20 — Released On the Arm and Swamp Zombies 2

Mill Creek Entertainment
03/17/20 — Sets Wesley Snipes Double Feature (2 film set: The Contractor, The Fan) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack

PCN Productions (MOD)
01/07/20 — Released 2020 PA Farm Show: Pony Pull, 2020 PA Farm Show: Rabbit Hopping, 2020 PA Farm Show: Sale of Champions, 2020 PA Farm Show: Sheep Herding, 2020 PA Farm Show: Sheep to Shawl and 2020 PA Farm Show: Square Dance

Panorama
12/31/19 — Released Erotic Ghost Story 2 (Cantonese) and School on Fire (Cantonese)

Paramount Home Media
02/04/20 — Sets Playing With Fire (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)
03/10/20 — Sets Ten Commandments/Ten Commandments (silent-1923) (3 disc set)

Pentrex
12/24/19 — Released Rotariers 2: Battle to Open Donner Pass

SM Life Design Group
12/24/19 — Released Thieves (Korean)

SRS Cinema
12/24/19 — Released Chloroformed

Samuel Goldwyn Films
01/07/20 — Released Paradise Hills

Scorpion Releasing
12/31/19 — Released Card Player (Italian) and Phantom of the Opera (Italian)
01/07/20 — Released Omega Syndrome and Stand Alone

Screen Media
01/07/20 — Released Crown Vic

Sentai FilmWorks
01/07/20 — Released Girl in Twilight: Complete Collection (2 disc set)

Shochiku Home Video
12/24/19 — Released Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo, Volume 01 (Japanese), Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo, Volume 02 (Japanese), Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo, Volume 03 (Japanese), Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo, Volume 04 (Japanese), Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo, Volume 05 (Japanese), Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo, Volume 06 (Japanese), Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo, Volume 07 (Japanese), Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo, Volume 08 (Japanese), Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo, Volume 09 (Japanese) and Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo, Volume 10 (Japanese)

Shout! Factory
01/07/20 — Released Depraved (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Final Programme (aka: The Last Days of Man on Earth) and Trespassers

Smart Mark Video (MOD)
12/24/19 — Released Combat Zone Wrestling: Cage of Death XXI - Voorhees, NJ, Fight or Die: Chairman Where Art Thou - Indianapolis, IN and Game Changer Wrestling: Nick Gage Invitational 4 - Summit, IL

Sony Pictures Home Ent.
01/07/20 — Released Double Feature: Bad Boys/Bad Boys II (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)
02/18/20 — Sets Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

20th Century-Fox Home Ent.
02/11/20 — Sets Ford vs. Ferrari (with Digital Copy)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.
02/04/20 — Sets Last Christmas (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)
02/18/20 — Sets 21 Bridges (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)
03/03/20 — Sets Queen & Slim (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Universal Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)
01/07/20 — Released Bulletproof 2

Warner Bros. Home Ent.
12/31/19 — Released Batman Beyond: The Complete Series - Plus Return of the Joker (6 disc set) (with Digital Copy)
01/28/20 — Sets Motherless Brooklyn (with Digital Copy)
02/04/20 — Sets Good Liar (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)
01/07/20 — Released Big Little Lies: The Complete Second Season (3 disc set)
01/14/20 — Sets Penelope
01/21/20 — Sets Cimarron
01/28/20 — Sets Two on a Guillotine and Underwater


4K Ultra HD New Additions

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment
02/18/20 — Sets Midway (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Sony Pictures Home Ent.
02/04/20 — Sets Boyz n the Hood (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

20th Century-Fox Home Ent.
02/11/20 — Sets Ford vs. Ferrari (4k Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.
03/03/20 — Sets Queen & Slim (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)






















 

2019 Preliminary Results Show That Both DVD (+ 2.47 Percent) And Blu-ray (+ 7.53 Percent) Showed SKU-Count Gains


Preliminary format release results for 2019 show increases in SKU counts for both DVD and Blu-ray, while the 4K Ultra HD number remained as nothing more than a studio high-profile theatrical release blip.

It should be noted that the DVD count will rise slightly in the weeks ahead as stranglers are tracked down and posted.   The Blu-ray number is pretty close to the market and the 4K Ultra HD count is firm.

The DVD SKU count for 2019 currently stands at 10,866 new releases, that is a 2.47 percent increase over the 2018 posting of 10,604 new DVD titles.   This rise in output is generated by the ever-increasing use of on-demand publishing (MOD), which now outpaces traditionally replicated discs by a factor of 64.5 percent MOD to 35.5 percent replicated (7,006 titles versus 3,860).  

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
The MOD/replicated ratio flipped in 2018 for the first time when MOD releases outpaced traditionally replicated DVD product offerings by 51.8 percent to 48.2 percent (5,491 versus 5,112).

We fully expect this trend to continue as MOD publishing for DVD products will continue to mirror the book publishing business for soft-cover books (especially from Amazon.com).   48-hour turn-around will become the norm for the majority of titles released on DVD in the coming years … cheap, simple and effective.   

It is also a pirate’s paradise as the studios seem content to let “deep catalog” offenses slide.
The big growth area for the DVD format is Sports on-demand, with the CBS Sports Digital Network leading the way in publishing high school sporting events nationwide on an on-demand basis.   We expect this trend to include increases in both college-level and professional sporting events in the near future.   

Of note, Coplay, Pennsylvania’s Smart Mark Video delivers a weekly slate of new DVD and Blu-ray on-demand releases to fans of the professional wrestling market (non-WWE).   It would not come as a surprise if other niche sporting events were to develop similar publishing venues … again, cheap, simple and effective.

Other on-demand categories that fuel the annual count of DVD new product choices are Religion, Foreign Language movies and Special Interest, plus recycled Theatrical library titles by “non-traditional” sources, many of which are currently owned by the “Hollywood” studios (no one seems to be monitoring this any longer).

It would not come as a surprise if the current streaming wars ultimately became a rich source of programming for the on-demand packaged media marketplace.   Bloomberg reported this past week that a whopping 535 new television programs were released in 2019 … that’s ten new shows per week.   Some on network, some on cable and the bulk as streaming choices.    Just ball-parking the numbers, ten episodes per show, one hour per episode … that’s something on the order of 5,000 hours annually of episodic programming from just new productions alone.   Hello!!

Slow to pick up on the trend in on-demand publishing is the music industry, which could be churning out “keep sake” editions of concerts — both current and vintage — on an on-demand basis (someone will pick up on this … of this we are sure).   Fathom Events, with their rich selection of operas and other musical events, while popular with theatre-goers, seem to have missed this “keep sake” market as well (at least for the moment).

On the Blu-ray front, SKU count exceeded 3,000 new releases for the first time in the history of the format this past year.   The preliminary number stands at 3,027, an increase of 7.53 percent over the 2018 Blu-ray release total of 2,815 new titles.
DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey


The ratio between traditional replication and MOD for the Blu-ray format remains remarkably stable — 71.5/28.5 percent in 2018 versus 71.1/28.9 percent in 2019 (Blu-ray is the workhorse for the studios at this point, so that ratio should remain about same for 2020).  

As for the 4K Ultra HD format, there were 170 new product offerings in 2019 versus 179 in 2018 … that’s a decline of five percent.   Hardly worth noting!

Overall, combined new SKU counts for the three formats currently stands at 14,063 for 2019 (that will continue to move upward in the next few weeks as revisions are made).   Last year the number came home at 13,598, which marks an overall increase of 3.4 percent in home entertainment packaged media output on a year-over-year basis.

The overall ratio of traditional replication versus MOD publishing — for the combined three formats — is now flipped in favor of on-demand publishing for the first time.   56 percent of all new releases were on-demand (7,882), while 44 percent were from traditional manufacturing (6,181) … the previous year (2018), the on-demand percent was 46.3 percent (6,293), while traditional sources contributed 53.7 percent (7,305).   

The trend is unmistakable … it would not come as a surprise if the overall record of 15,227 new releases achieved in 2006 is soon eclipsed … on-demand publishing, coupled with new product sources will make this so.