This report looks at the operational risk associated with this industry. Three types of risk are recognized in our analysis. These are: risk arising from within the industry itself (structural risk), risks arising from the expected future performance of the industry (growth risk) and risk arising from forces external to the industry (external sensitivity risk).
This industry includes manufacturers of optical and magnetic media, such as blank audio tapes, video tapes, optical discs, compact discs (CD), digital versatile discs (DVD), hard drive media, and blank diskettes. The industry also includes firms which mass duplicate (i.e., make copies) audio, video, software, and other data on magnetic, optical, and similar media.
The primary activities of firms in this industry are:
- Blank tape, CD and DVD manufacturing
- CD-ROM, software, mass reproducing
- Game cartridge software, mass reproducing
- Cassette tapes and compact discs, pre-recorded audio, mass reproducing
- Laser disks, prerecorded video, mass reproducing
- Phonograph records manufacturing
- Video tape or disk mass reproducing
- Hard drive media manufacturing
- DVD software & video mass reproduction