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The State of Home Video study predicts a Blu-ray Golden Era of 2014-17
Want to know when, or if Blu-ray will overtake DVD? SNL Kagan's analysts went back to the crystal ball for The State of Home Video report and see high definition DVD (hey, that might include CBHD or HD NVD) taking 59.7% of the market in 2014, peaking in 2017 at 73.8% before video on-demand finally takes over. Still, Blu-ray will start picking up the slack on DVD sales (apparently slowed from earlier predictions by the current economic state) as early as next year, with player sales rising to $1.3 billion and finally reaching the mass market, before spiking in 2013. Unfortunately it appears we're in for quite a few more years of VOD services figuring out their technology and content packages, you ready to hang onto optical formats for a while longer?
Most of the televisions sold in 2006: HDTVs
Because there haven't been enough consumer studies released regarding HDTVs. Kagan Research is back with another high priced technology report and as usual, we're reporting on it.The big news here? For the first time ever, they expect high definition televisions to make up the majority of TV's sold ithis year. As prices continue to slide and programming continues to increase, more and more people replacing their existing televisions will pick up HDTVs. All this will add up to 20 million HDTVs sold this year, and 104 million by 2008. Broadcasters, electronics manufacturers, content producers, the consumers are out here waiting, just give us what we want, more HD content and more ways to view it. My rant is over for the day.
