Stephen W. Long wrote: >Maybe Mark knows the >answer to the next question - given the consumer desire to buy a "must >have" product (say, DVD when it really took off), what is the largest >number of electronics units sold per year in recent history for "must have" >units? > The biggest number I can find in the CEA report is sales to U.S. dealers of wireless phones: 70.5 million in 2003 79.7 million estimated (in January 2005) in 2004 89.2 million projected (in January 2005) for 2005 Nothing in video/TV comes close. TTFN, Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.