Re: Blu-ray player sales down despite format victory

remysun2000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 2, 7:56 am, "eHDMI" <Supp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Standalone Blu-ray player unit sales in the U.S. decreased 40
>> percent from 
> 
>> January to February and saw a very slight increase (2 percent)
>> between February and March, according to NPD.
> 
> 1) We're in a recession-- weak dollar and a fuel price crunch.
> 2) It's not HD-DVD, which was at a lower price with their
> hardware. 
> 

Sorry, but we're not in a recession.  The growth is slowing, but the 
US GDP grew by 0.8% in Q1 of 2008.  A recession requires 6 months of 
NEGATIVE growth, hence the term recession, as in RECEDE.