The line chart given highlights how income from cinema tickets and DVD sales have changed between 2001 and 2010 globally including North America.
With regards to income from cinema tickets in both regions, they went up uniformly while the DVD revenue was erratic. In North America, probable DVD sales was on the low end towards the end of the decade whereas those sold abroad fluctuated.
North America’s DVD sales stood at around $17 billion in 2001 before peaking around $22 billion in 2004. However, by 2010, this segment would earn about $15 billion due to drastic reduction in price that happened in between. Conversely, the North American movie receipts remained stable; they kicked off at about $9billion as at 2001 and finally came to be around $10billion suggesting a slow but sure increase throughout this specified time frame.
As for international markets’ – DVD sales started off at nearly 16billion US dollars during year one then witnessed tremendous growth culminating into nearly $26 billion as its highest point reached in 2005. After reaching its highest point it experienced steeper declines until it ended up slightly below 19 billion dollar level by year end 2010. On the other hand, international cinema sales demonstrate an impressive uptrend starting from approximately 11 billion USD on season year 2001 going ahead to around 31 billion USD by season year 2010 implying that it had expanded greatly.