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 >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: >> >> - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration >>settings at FreeLists.org >> >> - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the >>word unsubscribe in the subject line. >> >> > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > >- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings >at FreeLists.org > >- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the >word unsubscribe in the subject line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.