Estimated Home Entertainment Residual Payments for 1985 & 2007

Residual rate shown for the the first 1 million units sold of home entertainment release. The residual rate was worth 7.7x more in 1985 than 2007.

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Source: New York Times (1985 VHS Price); The feature film distribution deal [Cones; 1997] (Distributor gross); CNBC (2007 DVD Price)
Residual calculation: rate of 0.03% applied to distributor gross (assumed to be 80% of total gross) for first 1 million units sold. 1985 unit sold price = $79.99; 2007 unit sold price = $19.99.