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Post subject: How many players were actually sold each year? Posted: 05 May 2017, 22:59 |
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From this thread we have a idea of general laserdisc sales and the most successful years. What years was Laserdisc in its prime?1978-1990 saw increasing sales year on year 1991-1997 were the best years 1997-2001 sales decreased Japanese demand generally mirrored USA but lasted a few years longer. From this thread I found some info about hardware/software decline in later years. The decline of laserdisc hardware and softwarehardware fell year on year from 1997 onwards U.S. Laserdisc Hardware Demand 1997 35,000 1998 25,000 1999 20,000 2000 5,000 2001 - U.S. Laserdisc Title Demand 1997 8 million 1998 5.6 million 1999 4.0 million 2000 3.5 million 2001 1.0 million According to wiki there were a total of 16.8 million LaserDisc players sold worldwide, of which 9.5 million were sold by Pioneer. So I wonder what the 16.8 million would look like on a year by year basis of sales. That's the equivalent of roughly 730,000 machines per year for 23 years which is a huge amount! I was just curious when all these sales took place so I came up with these initial projections.... 1978 10,000 1979 20,000 1980 40,000 1981 60,000 1982 80,000 1983 100,000 1984 120,000 1985 130,000 1986 150,000 1987 200,000 1988 300,000 1989 500,000 1990 1,000,000 1991 2,000,000 1992 3,000,000 1993 4,000,000 1994 3,000,000 1995 2,000,000 1996 500,000 1997 75,000 1998 50,000 1999 40,000 2000 10,000 2001 5000 2002 4000 2003 3000 2004 2000 2005 1500 2006 1200 2007 1000 2008 800 2009 600 That produces a total of roughly 17 million but I'm concerned about how quickly the figures dropped in 1996-97. Still its an interesting list because it shows most players were probably manufactured in 1990-1995 so are approaching 25+ years old!! Any thoughts?
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