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From the half a year figures of the Belgian Video Federation (BVF) appeared that DVD and games in Belgi still good sell. Compared by 2006 became there with the first half a year the past half year sixteen per cent more DVD sold.

The good figures its for a large part at television series to thank. “Especially the TV-DVD' s as Desperate Housewives and Loose did the total sale rise”, says Nikolaas De Belie, PR-responsible of BVF.

For the first time its also figures for Blu Ray and HD DVD taken up. From that appeared that Blu Ray a temporary lead takes on its counterpart, with eight thousand sold disks opposite two thousand furrow HD DVD. According to De Belie is this however yet no indication that Blu Ray the standard becomes.,. “As you that figures next to the DVD-sale lays, then are the first figures too small-scale a winner at to allude.”

Next to the disks appeared that Video on Demand and mobile video not yet a lot of following have. Also the sale of videocassettes sank again with more than seventy per cent. Yet became there the past year yet two turns so much videotapes sold as a HD DVD and Blu Ray together.

Next to movies and series also the games were the past half a year more in feature, with an increase of nineteen per cent in sold numbers. Consolegames were generally much more popular than PC games, this comes according to the BVF especially through the launch of new consoles as the PS3 and the Wii, together with a strong sale of games for mobile consoles as the PSP and the Nintendo DS.