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December 27, 2006

DVD only now more popular than VHS

Via Slashdot apparently the DVD revolution isn't as overwhelming as we thought:

During the third quarter of 2006, 81.2 percent of all US households reported owning at least one DVD player compared to 79.2 percent for VCRs. That figure marks a 6 percent increase in DVD player ownership from the same period in 2005, while VCRs ownership fell. It's a far cry from 1999, when Nielsen first began tracking DVD ownership. At the end of the 90s, only 6.7 percent of households owned a DVD player, compared with 88.6 percent owning VCRs.

I would have thought that DVD's would have outpaced VCR's long ago. I'd be interested in seeing the IPOD numbers.

Posted by Peter at December 27, 2006 08:50 AM

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