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Article: Unscrambling high-tech alphabet soup.(digital video, high-definition television and direct-to-home satellite television forecasts)
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- HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network
- Article date:
- November 24, 1997
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###Shari Sommer
$108 BILLION INDUSTRY PLEASING TO THE EYE
Few people doubt the spot on center stage that video consumer electronics occupy. Televisions have found their way into nearly 97 million American households (with an average of 2.4 TVs per home), and two-thirds of those households subscribe to cable television. VCRs have found their way into 90 percent of U.S. homes, and computers, which have become increasingly sophisti- cated visually, sit atop a desk in two out of every five homes.
Consumers who want some visual stimulation ...