Spending on high-profit margin Blu-ray Discs in North America was up nearly 10% in 2012 to help keep consumer spending on home entertainment over $18 billion, according to DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group‘s Year-End 2012 Home Entertainment Report being announced today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The number of Blu-ray Disc player devices of all kinds climbed 7% to 51 million households, with sales of catalog Blu-ray titles jumping 25% for the year.
Meanwhile, spending on electronics sell-through and video-on-demand grew 28%, with digital distribution accounting for 30% of the domestic home video market, up from 19% in 2011.
On the HDTV front, consumers purchased more than 39 million HDTVs in 2012 to bring household penetration to more than 108.4 million in the U.S.
Top-selling home entertainment titles released in 2012 were “The Avengers,” “Hunger Games,” “Dark Knight Rises,” “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1,” and “Brave.”
— By Scott Hettrick