DVD wholesale distributors

DVD wholesale distributors license DVD distribution rights to studios that produce movies and supply DVDs to retail stores, online merchants, DVD rental companies, and mail order stores. DVDs are often made or imported by the same wholesalers.

DVDs are sold as packages containing different titles. Action, comedy, drama, family, horror, kids, martial arts, and western are some of the popular DVD genres. They are sold as prepackaged packages or customized to order. DVDs often contain additional content that is not available to viewers in movie theaters. These include interviews with the stars, behind-the-scenes action from film sets, and scenes that have been removed from the film. These extras are an added attraction for DVD consumers.

The highest revenue for DVD wholesale distributors is from selling video products to retail stores and renting videos. There has been considerable growth in Internet mail order rental in the US Netflix, which is one of the largest online rental companies, has more than two million customers. The company expects to have about a five percent share of the entire US market in 2006. It ships about three million DVDs each week.

DVD retailers enjoy a good margin and an increasing number of people are starting to buy DVDs in bulk from a wholesaler and sell them on auction sites such as eBay and online stores. Several DVD distributors offer drop shipping and ship the DVDs directly to the end consumer on behalf of the retailer.

Internet mail-order DVDs, digital distribution including provision of a movie download service through the distributor’s own broadband infrastructure, game stores, video-on-demand services, and Pay-per-view services are the current trends. Video-on-demand (VOD) systems allow users to view video over a network as part of an interactive television system. The video can be viewed at any time, while a pay-per-view system allows viewers to purchase events for a private broadcast at their homes.