US DVD player sales past the 4M unit mark in 1999. The market enters 2000 with year over year sales increasing at 180%.............................................
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Vital Statistics - 1/13/00
According to the CEA, for the week ending Dec. 31, 1999, DVD player unit sales to dealers soared to 164,242, a 363.2 percent increase over 1998 sales for the week ending Dec. 31, in retrospect, projection television sales suffered, decreasing to 31,587, a mere .07 percent increase over 1998.
Month-to-date, DVD player sales were 646,290, a 189.2 percent increase over December 1998 sales, and projection television sales appear more profitable at 162,362, a 31.3 percent increase.
Year-to-date, DVD player sales have finally surpassed the four million mark at 4,071,938, a 277.3 percent increase over 1998 sales and projection television sales are at 1,231,690, a 15.1 percent increase over 1998.
DVD title sales are spectacular! For the week ending Jan. 2, 2000, DVD title sales remained above the million mark at 1,301,000, yielding a tremendous year-to-date total of 22,707,000! |