1.   Sony won, and the movie industry went on to make billions off videotape sales.

2.   Videotape sales are up only slightly.

3.   Company officials said videotape sales suffered from the high yen and lower videotape prices.

4.   They said TDK expected optical media sales to rise through the balance of the year to offset the decline in videotape sales.

5.   The company had previously said that videotape sales in Japan had been depressed by an influx of cheap tapes from Asian counties.