Tag archive: Sean Wargo

New research out this week from the Consumer Electronics Association suggests a growing number of consumers are embracing flat panel televisions as the wave of the future. This, with other types of televisions thrown in as well, comes in to the estimated tune of $22 billion worth of TVs shipping before year's end. The CEA's numbers, said the trade group, indicate that while only 17 percent of consumers currently own a flat panel… Read More

Parents: are you looking for a gift idea for your tech savvy teenager this holiday season? Consider this: MP3 players are at the top of teens' lists for both giving and wanting this holiday season, according to a new study from the Consumer Electronics Association. Seventeen percent of teenagers in the study, said the CEA, selected the device as a desired gift, a 9 percent increase over 2003. Video game consoles, computers, portable… Read More

The survey results reinforce CEA's market research projection that total digital television (DTV) unit shipments will surpass analog television sales for the first time in 2005, based on the “digitaltuner mandate” issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The first time that dollar sales of digital television surpassed analog television was in 2003. “HDTV is here to stay,” CEA President and CEO Gary… Read More

As Americans prepare for the nation's unofficial holiday — Super Bowl XXXIX – consumer electronics retailers are ringing up huge sales of digital television (DTV) products. According to figuresreleased today by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), December 2004 factory-to-dealer sales of DTV products hit 927,000 units, marking a 45 percent increase over December 2003. Total DTVsales for 2004 reached 7.2 million units, an… Read More

Manufacturer-to-dealer sales of consumer electronics will reach a record-high of $125.7 billion in 2005, according to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). These sales mark an 11 percent increase over the $113.5 billion dollars sold in 2004. The figures are part of CEA's bi-annual U.S. Consumer Electronics Sales and Forecasts report. The report was released yesterday following a presentation by CEA Director of Industry Analysis… Read More

Unit sales for November totaled 843,784 units and dollar sales topped $600 million. “With holiday sales still going strong, we expect 2004 will finish on a high note for DTV,” said CEA Director of Market Research Sean Wargo. “Sales have gone through the roof this year and the trend will only continue in the coming years, particularly as consumers become acquainted with products like Digital Cable Ready that make the… Read More

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) today announced the release of a new market research survey on teen consumer electronics (CE) consumers. Nearly all teens in this phone survey, 98 percent, said they watched a TV in the past 30 days, 91 percent used a DVD player, 87 percent used a desktop computer and 86 percent used a VCR. Substantial majorities also reported using wireless phones, videogame consoles and computer-based CD… Read More

This is marking a 136 percent increase in unit sales over October 2003 and a 102 percent rise in dollar sales. “We expected DTV sales to be strong in the final months of the year, but to see the numbers in print is an exhilarating affirmation of DTV's success,” said CEA Director of Industry Analysis Sean Wargo. “Year-to-date DTV sales total 5.4 million units and are on track to meet CEA's initial forecast of 6.9… Read More

Sales reached 2.3 million units during the same period last year. Total camcorder sales, which include standard analog and digital camcorders, have fallen by 8 percent to 3.6 million units – a trendCEA attributes to a transitionary period between the analog and digital alternatives. DVRs and DVD recorders have experienced even more impressive growth as consumers begin to understand the time-shifting benefits of DVR technology and the… Read More

New consumer research from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) finds high satisfaction among digital camera owners and a potential burgeoning market for media servers. The surveys found thatsome 84 percent of current owners are satisfied with their digital camera and 53 percent of consumers are interested in having the ability to store music on a PC and listen to it anywhere in thehouse. The surveys were released here Monday during… Read More

“DTV sales have now reached a total of 11.7 million units since market introduction in 1998 and most of those sales have occurred during the past two years,” said Sean Wargo, senior industry analyst for CEA. “With high definition (HDTV) products constituting the vast majority of total sales, these figures show how quickly consumers are responding to the continued increase in the amount of quality HDTV programming,… Read More

Beginning this summer, American consumers for the first time will be able to receive digital high-definition television (HDTV) programming via cable without the need for a set-top box. In fact, theConsumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced today that by year's end, more than one million so-called “Digital Cable Ready” (DCR) HDTVs are expected to be sold in the United States. Under terms of the landmark cable-consumer… Read More

January and February manufacturer-to-dealer sales of digital television (DTV) products totaled 853,443 units representing dollar sales of more than $1.3 billion, the Consumer Electronics Association(CEA) announced today. Compared to the same period in 2003, the 2004 sales represent a 124 percent unit increase and a 100 percent increase in dollar sales. CEA defines DTV products as integratedsets and monitors displaying active vertical scanning… Read More

Sales of standalone DVD players jumped 45 percent this month, compared to the same period in 2002, totaling more than 3.6 million units. The year-to-date figures for DVD products also improved, with TV/DVD combination sales now totaling 1.35 million units, a 300 percent increase over 2002.Year-end shipments for stand-alone DVD players have increased some 29 percent with unit sales totaling nearly 19 million units. “With half of U.S.… Read More

According to a survey of online consumers conducted by eBrain Market Research of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the stand-alone DVD player is in 63 percent of online homes, (in terms ofoverall U.S. households, DVDs have a 41 percent penetration). By comparison, TVs and VCRs have a near 100 percent ownership rate with 98 and 92 percent respectively. The eBrain survey found that DVDsalso are on the path to ubiquity. The DVD market… Read More