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12-21-2006, 02:59 PM
DVD players finally overtake VCRs in US
Posted Dec 21st 2006 2:17PM by Cyrus Farivar
Filed under: Home Entertainment
We can't remember the last time we even used a VCR (nor did we ever figure out how to program the clock on those blasted things), but apparently we (and probably you, too) are just a little ahead of the curve. According to a recent Nielsen study, there are finally more American households that have DVDs than have VCRs. Translated into statistics, that means that 81.2 percent of all households in the good ol' US of A have DVD players, surpassing the 79.2 percent that have VCRs. (We've got no idea how many of those are dual-use machines, however.) Nielsen's been tracking this trend since 1999, when only 6.7 percent of American households had DVD players; we take that to surely mean that by 2013 the six percent of people who have Blu-ray or HD DVD players currently will have finally settled on one of them newfangled hybrid devices that we're dying to get our hands on.
[Via PVR Wire]
http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/dvd-players-finally-overtake-vcrs-in-us/
Um, yeah, anyone else now think Nintendo and Microsoft was strategic to not force consumers into the Next Gen media format war?
Posted Dec 21st 2006 2:17PM by Cyrus Farivar
Filed under: Home Entertainment
We can't remember the last time we even used a VCR (nor did we ever figure out how to program the clock on those blasted things), but apparently we (and probably you, too) are just a little ahead of the curve. According to a recent Nielsen study, there are finally more American households that have DVDs than have VCRs. Translated into statistics, that means that 81.2 percent of all households in the good ol' US of A have DVD players, surpassing the 79.2 percent that have VCRs. (We've got no idea how many of those are dual-use machines, however.) Nielsen's been tracking this trend since 1999, when only 6.7 percent of American households had DVD players; we take that to surely mean that by 2013 the six percent of people who have Blu-ray or HD DVD players currently will have finally settled on one of them newfangled hybrid devices that we're dying to get our hands on.
[Via PVR Wire]
http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/dvd-players-finally-overtake-vcrs-in-us/
Um, yeah, anyone else now think Nintendo and Microsoft was strategic to not force consumers into the Next Gen media format war?