The chart below shows the annual number of rentals and sales (in various formats) of films from a particular store between 2002 and 2011. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The chart illustrates statistics concerning how many different kinds of movies per year were sold and rented from a specific store over a nine-year
period
. Overall
, while
the number
of rentals
decreased significantly, DVD sales
became dominant over the whole period
.
In terms of rentals
, it was the most popular type of movie from 2002 to 2003, with about 180000 films rented in this
period
, followed by a slight decrease to 160000 in 2004. In contrast
, the number
of DVDs
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DVD
sales
rose drastically, with the level rising by 120000 to 170000 in 2004, thus
substituting for rentals
, as the most commonplace format. After 2004, although
DVD sales
remained at this
level, despite a slight rise, the number
of rentals
fell dramatically to 60000 in 2011.
On the other hand
, both VHS and Blu-ray accounted for an insignificant proportion of annual sales
. Although
VHS sales
represented the second-highest number
in 2002, with around 85000 films, they experienced a four-year period
of immense decrease, leading to an elimination from the list of forms. On the contrary
, Blu-ray sales
started adding to the list of formats in 2007, and there had been a slight increase in their number
to 10,000 by 2011. However
, they were approximately responsible for an infinitesimal level of sales
during this
period
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