Analyst: 2/3 of All PC Drives Sold To Be HD-Combo by 2012
January 2, 2008 by Zach Flauaus
Filed under Electronics
With 2008 just beginning, it’s time for analysts to head back to work and start, well, analyzing, what they think will happen this year and in the upcoming years. ABI Research has already come out with a surprisingly believable prediction: in 2012, two-thirds of all PC drives that are sold will be a HD-combo unit, containing both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray to help curb the format war. They believe that 2009 will be the year prices of drives will start to fall and by 2010 the sales of the combo drives will “exceed Blu-ray.” Considering the short amount of time it took for CD and DVD to drop in price, first in read-only then in burners, this is very believable and I hope that this may actually happen sooner than four years into the future. Now granted we may all have moved onto the next distribution system by that time, whether that is over-the-air streaming, internet downloads, or another disc format. I really hope not, though.
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