DVD Player Ownership Surpasses VCR Ownership

An anonymous reader wrote to mention an Ars Technica post stating that, for the first time, more U.S. consumers own a DVD player than own a VCR. The DVD player dropped below $100 quite some time ago, but the third quarter of this year saw the percentage of DVD player ownership reach 81.2. Only 79.2% of consumers now own VCR players, reports Nielsen. From the article: "For all of the talk about the battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray, both technologies are far, far away from most family rooms. Yes, the two are just now beginning what could be a long battle for entertainment-center supremacy, but keep in mind that the technology that they are vying to replace has only recently gained the upper hand against the previous-generation technology--a decade after first being introduced. Even if Blu-ray or HD DVD unexpectedly routs its opponent from the market in the next two or three years, it will still be several more years before the victorious format supplants the DVD."

Re:DVD will be the winner in the HiDef War

[CDMA_Demo]

No one will ever use the full capacity of BluRay station wagon.

Re:DVD will be the winner in the HiDef War

[plover]

Are you saying 640K station wagons full of BluRay* discs should be enough for anyone?

You're probably right. At least until holodeck interaction becomes common.

*Firefox's spell checker suggested BluRay should be spelled "blurry". So much for HD.

Re:But the DVD has is own issues...

[eln]

If only there were some sort of portable computer that could fit on one's lap...a "laptop" if you will...that could be carried to remote locations like this. Or perhaps someone could come up with some way to attach an internal device like a hard drive to an external port on a standard PC. Perhaps some sort of enclosure with an external connector. Sort of like what the GP mentioned.

Oh hell, that's all just fantasy anyway. The very idea of such useful technology is absurd.

Re:Not too surprising

[dosius]

Then what do I do on my DVD recorder with DVD-RW discs?

-uso.