Re: Blu-ray player sales down despite format victory

On 05 May 2008 00:28:26 GMT Larrybud <larrybud2002@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| remysun2000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|> On May 2, 7:56?am, "eHDMI" <Supp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|>> 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. 
|> 
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| 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.

It's PER CAPITA GDP growth that has to be negative.

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