Chapter 1

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• Toshiba (1996) 120 million DVD-ROM drives in 2000 (80 percent
penetration of 100 million PCs). Toshiba says they will no longer make
CD-ROM drives in 2000.
• AMI (1997) An installed base of 7 million DVD-ROM drives by 2000.
• BASES 3 million DVD-Video players sold in the first year, with 13 million
sold in the sixth year.
• CEMA (1997) 400,000 DVD-Video players in United States in 1997,
with 1 million in 1998.
• Dataquest (1997) Over 33 million shipments of DVD players and
drives by 2000.
• Forrester Research (1997) A U.S. base of 53 million DVD-equipped
PCs established by 2002 and 5.2 percent of U.S. households (5 million)
will have a DVD-V player in 2002; 2 percent will have a DVD-Audio
player.
• IDC (1997) 10 million DVD-ROM drives sold in 1997, 70 million in
2000 (surpassing CD-ROMs), and 118 million in 2001, with over 13
percent of all software available on DVD-ROM in 1998. DVD-R drives
will be more than 90 percent of combined CD/DVD-R market in 2001.
• Intel (1997) 70 million DVD-ROM drives by 1999 (sales will surpass
CD-ROM drives in 1998).
• Paul Kagan (1997) 800,000 DVD players in the United States in
1997, 10 million in 2000, and 40 million in 2006 (43 percent penetration),
and 5.6 million discs sold in 1997, 172 million discs in 2000, and
623 million in 2006.
• Microsoft (Peter Biddle, 1997) 15 million DVD PCs sold in 1998,
with 50 million DVD PCs sold in 1999.
• SMD (1997) 100 million DVD-ROM/RAM drives shipped in 2000.
• InfoTech (January 1998) 20 million DVD-Video players worldwide in
2002, with 58 million by 2005. 99 million DVD-ROM drives worldwide
in 2005. No more than 500 DVD-ROM titles available by the end of
1998. About 80,000 DVD-ROM titles available by 2005.
• Microsoft (Jim Taylor, 1998) An installed base of 35 million DVD
PCs in 1999.
• Screen Digest (December 1998) In 1998, 125,000 DVD-Video players
will be in European homes, with 485,000 in 1999, and 1 million in
2000.