[opendtv] Re: How About Portable ATSC Receivers?
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:01:32 -0500
Tom
Do you have any stats on how many people participate in the AVS
forum? Any Idea how representative your respondents are relative to
the general population?
Thanks
Craig
At 7:30 PM -0500 4/1/05, Tom Barry wrote:
>Mark Schubin wrote:
>
> > I would also suspect that the VAST majority of the STBs are
> > satellite/ATSC combo units.
>
>Answering that question was the main reason I started my AVS Forum
>hardware poll 4 years ago. The most recent answer from my poll of
>January 2005 says that 15.02% of the 233 AVS respondents primarily used
>an STB that did not also get either cable or satellite.
>
>These were all HDTV viewers. I've attached the results below, with
>fairly sloppy lack of reformatting. Also see:
><http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=4908461#post4908461>
>
>- Tom
>
>
>
>A DirectTV box (OTA or satellite, with or without subscription
> 93 39.91%
>
>An Echostar box (OTA or satellite, with or without subscription)
> 14 6.01%
>
>An Voom box (OTA or satellite, with or without subscription)
> 11 4.72%
>
>Any other STB that supports satellite reception
>3 1.29%
>
>A Cable HDTV STB
>52 22.32%
>
>A standalone STB that does not get either cable or satellite
> 35 15.02%
>
>A TV with an integrated HDTV receiver (OTA)
> 6 2.58%
>A TV with an integrated HDTV receiver (Cable or Satellite)
> 6 2.58%
>
>A card in a PC (OTA, Satellite, cable?? (please comment if not OTA)
> 11
>4.72%
>
>Any other possible answer, but only if you get HDTV somehow
> 2 0.86%
>
>>>>According to the Consumer Electronics Association, factory sales of
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>integrated
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>DTT sets and DTT STBs have been nearly identical (cumulative to the
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>end of
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>2004), about 1.5 million of each.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>OK, that's interesting information. Perhaps I overstated my case. But I
>>>wonder, what are the sell-through numbers (i.e., sales to consumers as
>>>opposed to sales into the distribution channels)?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I'd love to find out myself.
>>
>>
>>>And if those numbers are cumulative since day one of the DTV era, what
>>>are the recent trends?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Clearly, the integrated is rising. CEA reported factory sales of over a
>> million digital-cable-ready TVs in 2004, alone, and each of those had
>> ATSC-reception capability.
>>
>> I would also suspect that the VAST majority of the STBs are
>> satellite/ATSC combo units.
>>
>> TTFN,
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
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