vansmack
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Re: Verizon DSL?
February 20, 2006 at 08:46 PM UTC
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Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
I wonder what penetrance DVRs have in the UK and here.
USA Currently: 110.2 mln of US households have a television, and 7% of them have DVRs (~7.7 Million) (
Neilsen )
USA Projected DVR penetration to reach 27 Million by 2008. (
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No complete numbers for the UK, but the guess is between 2.5% and 5%. 10% of Sky subscribers have the Sky+ box (770K).
PDF linkage 5 Million expected in UK by 2008.
DVR service penetration will also increase to 20% of Western European Digital TV Homes by 2008, says Yankee Group.
Global Penetration: The number of installed digital video recorders (DVRs) is forecast to rocket from 9 million at end 2004 to 120 million by end-2010 â?? to reach 11% of global TV households (
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vansmack
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Re: Verizon DSL?
February 20, 2006 at 08:53 PM UTC
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Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
You have sky you have broadband, but you do not have a DVR….
Don't confuse the purpose of Broadband (Video on Demand) vs. what a DVR does for you. The DVR only records what I tell it to record, and allows me to play it back. VoD will eventually allow me to playback nearly all shows, including those which I have not necessarily asked to record with my DVR.
kosmo
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Re: Verizon DSL?
February 21, 2006 at 03:06 PM UTC
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and Comcast continues to behind the times with DVRs literally… our DVR is once again running a minute slow so the beginning of shows get cutoff… :mad: system wide problem apparently… morons