DVD players now surpass VCRs in US homes
Steve Safran December 20th, 2006
I’m surprised - I would have guessed this had already happened. A Nielsen Media Research survey says there are finally more homes with DVD players than with VCRs. 81% of homes have DVD players, compared with 79% of homes with a VCR. Also of note: about 27% of homes have an MP3 player.
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1. Tim | December 20th, 2006 at 9:50 am
What about the number of DVD-RW/DVD+RW recorders and PVRs vs. VCRs? A DVD allows you to watch what someone else recorded, but doesn’t provide true time-shifting like a VCR.
Although I sort of agree with Mark Cuban that we may never download complete movies over the Internet, I do believe there’s a time coming where Tivo-like devices become cheap, especially if someone with a tuner card decides to use the ATSC Content Identification frames to pick off shows, rather than someone’s time-based guides which often get messed over by networks (of course the content providers might not fill in those frames?)
2. discreet_chaos | December 20th, 2006 at 11:49 am
I wonder how many of those DVD players are multiple-use machines, such as a computer or a gaming console? I’m sure if you count every DVD-capable device in most tech-savvy homes, you’d come-up with more than enough to counteract most home’s single VCR and the often older people’s, who only have the one device.
3. Ratboy | January 19th, 2008 at 5:23 am
Wow, thanks for the excellent information!
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