Is DVD-9 enough this generation?

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windbane said:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb335/is_200201/ai_hibm1G184313442

"LAS VEGAS--In a milestone for the home video industry, DVD players will outsell VCR decks for the first time in 2002 -- 16.25 million to 14.45 million, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) said in releasing its annual consensus forecast on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show last week.

Consumers bought just over 13 million DVD players in 2001, making DVD the fastest product in consumer electronics history to reach a 25 percent household penetration rate, the organization reported. Overall, the consumer electronics industry is expected to rebound from a 2 ..."

The PS2 launched in 2000. 

 

Nice try. DVDs launched in 1996. Here's the full data. There were about 14 million DVD players sold before PS2 launched in the US. I miscalculated the first time since I factored in 2001 also.

http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/spreadsheet/1004201

If 14m sold in roughly three years isn't already massively on its way to widely adopted, I don't know what is.