44% of all players DVD-A compatible by the end of 2004...?

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New DVD-Audio music releases and talk about the latest players.

I don't know if other people noticed this figure, but in the Consumer Electronics Daily posted a few days ago, there was an intriguing statement
*** Jeff Skillen, DTS Entertainment vp-business development, said there now were more than 55 models of DVD-Audio players from 19 manufacturers on market priced as low as $199 and all the way up to $20,000.
Citing Matsushita data, he said there were 1.2 million DVD-Audio players in U.S. at end of 2002 but stressed that DVD-Audio discs also were playable in 60 million DVD-Video-compatible devices (including DVD players, PlayStation 2 and Xbox game consoles and DVD
computer drives). "By end of 2004, he predicted, "44% of all DVD devices will be capable of playing DVD-Audio."
Does anybody know of these Matsushita figures, and why they assume almost half DVD devices to be DVD-Audio compatible in less than 2 years?
Do they mean the models being sold at that point in time, or installed base?
Best
Eric

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Topic - 44% of all players DVD-A compatible by the end of 2004...? - Eric LeRouge 12:31:40 04/05/03 (3)

Re: 44% of all players DVD-A compatible by the end of 2004...? - TimboN 20:23:32 04/05/03 (2)

Interesting perspective - Eric LeRouge 10:15:35 04/06/03 (1)

Re: Interesting perspective - TimboN 15:51:15 04/07/03 (0)

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