Now, local fare makes up nearly 50% of South Korean ticket sales, according to Screen Digest.
The games industry still sorely needs shops, argues Piers Harding-Rolls of Screen Digest, a media-analysis firm.
"It is an expensive genre, " says David Hancock, head of film and cinema at IHS Screen Digest.
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According to Screen Digest, online viewing is most likely to take off on services based on their devices.
Wal-Mart did 750, 000 movie transactions, according to researcher IHS Screen Digest, putting it on par with Amazon's rental service.
In 2010 more people bought or rented movies from iTunes than any other online site, according to IHS Screen Digest.
Ben Keen, research director at media analysts Screen Digest, said the rise was directly related to the building of new cinemas.
The Screen Digest report also highlighted the growing trend of buying games from places other than physical shops, such as online.
"There are other big gaming companies doing business in the territory including Shanda and Netease, " said Piers Harding-Rolls from IHS Screen Digest.
"Historically there have been moments where franchises have fallen out of style, " says Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games research at IHS Screen Digest.
Games tend to be the number one downloaded and used software application for these devices, according to sources like Nielsen, Forrester and Screen Digest.
Warner Bros, for instance, supplies small selections of its films to 38 separate digital-distribution services, according to Screen Digest, a research firm in London.
Some 3.2 million U.S. households in 2011 will be BD3D-enabled, compared to 790, 000 last year, with the number expected to exceed 22.5 million in 2014, IHS Screen Digest research shows.
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According to a recent study by IHS Screen Digest this may lead movie studios to abandon 35 mm film prints in major markets by 2013 and stop altogether by 2015.
"A smaller form factor is not only more attractive to many consumers, it will cost less to manufacture, ship and stock, " Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games at IHS Screen Digest, told the BBC.
"4K is a technology that is an evolutionary step that - maybe a long way down the line - will be the successor to today's HD televisions, " said Daniel Simmons from IHS Screen Digest.
According to IHS Screen Digest, U.S. spending on DVDs (including Blu-ray) grew 1.6% over April and the first two weeks of May thanks to the DVD release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.
But with Hollywood now starting to release some of its biggest 3D movies on Blu-ray 3D, IHS Screen Digest research predicts that Blu-ray 3D (BD3D) sales will explode in the U.S. and major European economies this year.
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"Mobile and online have become significant markets in their own right and we expect all forms of networked games exploitation to account for 20% of the total Western world market by 2008, " said Ben Keen, Screen Digest analyst.
According to Screen Digest, a British trade magazine, a major film release in the United States is typically shown on 1, 300 screens, compared with 450 in Germany and even fewer in other rich countries (see chart 2).
"Quad-core processors offer much faster performance for graphics-intensive activities such as high-definition video playback and high-end gaming as well as enabling the phone to handle multitasking with less effect on the user experience, " said Daniel Gleeson, a research analyst for IHS Screen Digest.
Not much imagination and desire needs to be brought to the screen to make it work because the platform is so easy to digest.
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