Wow maybe Sony was right about Blu-ray?

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Magnific0 said:
Seems I was able to answer one of my questions:

http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2002/01/07/daily34.html

An excerpt:

"One out of every four U.S. homes is equipped with a DVD player, leading to DVD sales topping sales of VHS tapes for the first time, according to figures released Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show by the DVD Entertainment Group.

Consumers spent $4.6 billion buying DVDs, 2.4 times more than in 2000, an increase that put DVD purchases ahead of VHS purchases for the first time despite an installed player base of 25 million DVD households versus a VCR installed player base of 96 million households, it says."


So 25 million DVD players by the end of 2001. Roughly 4 years after the introduction of the format to the market.

edit : well, almost 5 years after the format hit the streets.

That's 4 years, not 5.

US only and all stand alone players.  PS2 was not counted.

BD doesn't even have a million stand alone players sold in the US yet and it's been out for 2 years.