Number of DTV viewers

[ReesR]

Heres a blurb from the latest CEA press release on the matter:

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) said that July 2002 factory-to-dealer unit sales for digital television (DTV) products rose 81 percent compared to the same period in 2001 representing a 66 percent dollar sales increase.

DTV product sales for July 2002, which sold at an average price of $1,733, totaled 213,159 units and $369,311,697. CEA also released stand-alone set-top box figures for the first seven months of the year, which totaled 44,291 units and $20,152,689. The average set-top box price was $455. Comparatively, set-top box unit sales during the same period in 2001 totaled 79,101 units.

CEA projects that 2.1 million DTV products - including integrated sets and displays - will be sold in 2002, 4 million in 2003, 5.4 million in 2004, 8 million in 2005 and 10.5 million in 2006.

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Notice the lower STB (set top box) figure is lower for 2002 than 2001.  In my opinion, that merely reflects not being able to find any to buy.  I know I can't find any worth buying.  (ie RCA DTC100)




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Rees Roberts
Racine, WI
reesr@wi.net

HDTV Receiver:  Sony KD-34XBR2
Bi-directional Yagi Antenna at 30 feet

[Pat]

(Deleted by Pat)  Math problem.  

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[Matt Heebner]

The numbers are getting to be impressive for sure, but there is one other set of numbers that I wish would improve.
Total number of members to MilwaukeeHDTV.org...163.
Remember that this is out if about a million people in metro-Milwaukee. There has to be more people out there with HDTV's than this...right? Still cant complain about the sudden surge in membership in the last few days!!    

Matt

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[ReesR]

(as he pats himself on the back)... hehe

Well, there is one more member as of today because I invited him from a post I saw on the avsforum.  Maybe a few more saw it.

Question:  are there any other forum's we should be cross pollinating?  Maybe that could help a little.

[tenth_t2]

Maybe the Spot.... www.hometheaterspot.com

Greg O

[Tom Snyder]

"New members" are not the only guage of success here.. the traffic on the site is up this month as well

Average daily visitors:

June 143
July 151
August 185
September (to date) 207

Total Visitors per Month:

June 4318
July 4689
August 5735
September (total based on traffic to date) 5808

[ReesR]

Interesting data Tom.  Is there an option to see how many views of each topic occurs here on this board?  Might be useful to gauge interest levels in subjects.

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