Will digital TV sales hit 250,000 by the end of 2003?

Based on cumulative sales of digital terrestrial set top boxes and
integrated digital televisions to retailers and installers to the end of
October 2003, there are now just over 200,000 digital receivers in the
Australian marketplace.
This figure includes cumulative sales of suppliers which may not have
provided figures in previous months. The source of the figures are Informark
(which collects data from a number of CE suppliers including DGTEC, Grundig,
Sony, Panasonic, Thomson, Samsung & TEAC) and those DBA's member companies
that are not included in the Informark data (Toshiba, Strong, Trio,
Matchmaster, NextWave, Digitalview, Digidome, Topfield & Ikusi).

The total sales of digital receivers to retailers and installers for the
month of October is estimated at 22,700 units, of which integrated digital
TVs represented around 800 units.

The continuing upswing of sales of digital television receivers is mirroring
the sales of analog widescreen TVs (CRTs, Rear Projection, Plasma & LCD),
which reached a record 25,300 units in October 2003, based on sales of
suppliers to retailers.

Infomark data shows 40% of digital television sales are in NSW/ACT, 27% in
Victoria/Tasmania, 15% in Queensland, 10% in South Australia and 8% in
Western Australia.

With sales driven by the Rugby World Cup 2003 during November, and the
Christmas selling period just beginning, bulllish sales predictions of
250,000 digital receivers in people's homes by the end of 2003 are looking
possible.


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Source:
http://www.dba.org.au/newsletter/IB-...l.asp#PRODUCT2
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