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This chart tracks video sales--alternating weekly among...

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This chart tracks video sales--alternating weekly among an overall view of the market and profiles of individual segments. Sales data include mass merchandisers and retailers but not most discount outlets.

Theatrical: 76%

Children’s: 14%

Exercise: 4%

Television: 3%

Sports: 1%

Other: 2%

TV-Based Video Vendors

Year-to-date share of the television-based video sales market through Feb. 8 and current top-selling TV-based videos:

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Company: Fox

Share: 19.7%

Current best-selling video: Best of the Simpsons #2 (boxed set)

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Company: Paramount Home Video*

Share: 12.3

Current best-selling video: Gullah Gullah Island: Dance Along. . .

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Company: Anchor Bay

Share: 9.6

Current best-selling video: Mansions of America

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Company: PolyGram Home Video

Share: 7.5

Current best-selling video: 8 Best Bits of Mr. Bean

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Company: Warner Home Video*

Share: 7.4

Current best-selling video: National Geographic: Secrets of the Titanic

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Company: Cabin Fever

Share: 6.4

Current best-selling video: Lonesome Dove

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Company: Hallmark Home Ent.

Share: 5.7

Current best-selling video: The Odyssey

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Company: Sony Music / Sony Wonder

Share: 5.5

Current best-selling video: Real World You Never Saw

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Company: Columbia

Share: 5.2

Current best-selling video: Charlie’s Angels: Angels in Chains

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Company: Republic Home Ent.

Share: 4.6

Current best-selling video: The Stand

Market Leaders Feb. 2-8

Top video vendors, in percentage of sales in all categories:

Disney: 32.6%

Warner Home Video*: 16.3%

Fox: 8.5%

Universal Home Video: 8.3%

Columbia: 7.2%

Paramount Home Video: 6.8%

* Includes MGM, HBO, Tuner, New Line and Warner Vision

Source: VideoScan

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