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Due to the stinging blows dealt by the market these days, some analysts are now predicting bleak sales, both for the festival time and 2008 as a whole, for Blu-ray dramatis personae and many other CE yield in the not-so-cheap category.

Back in about the second area of this year, Parks Friends predicted that Blu-ray entertainer element sales, not including Sony PlayStation 3 entertainment consoles, would sum about 5 million globally this year, up from about 800,000 Blu-ray dramatis personae and 800,000 dramatis personae for Toshiba s competing HD DVD set-up sold in 2007.

Parks also forecast that annual Blu-ray entertainer element sales would jump eightfold within four existence to about 40 million, and that annual HDTV would increase 60 by 2012.

By all counts, sales of both Blu-ray dramatis personae and HDTVs were such that we did not foresee economic concerns impacting punter purchases or intentions -- at least not at that point, said Kurt Scherf, principal psychotherapist at Parks, in an electronic mail to BetaNews today. It looks like the significant tightening of purchases started occurring in September, and we re waiting to see what kinds of real facts begin to emerge to verify this. brooch the interim, Scherf estimates it s likely that sum sales of Blu-ray dramatis personae strength of character drop at least 25 from the firm s original projections to about 2.2 million dramatis personae in the US and 4.3 million worldwide. He told BetaNews that Parks is also currently working on revised HDTV sales forecasts.

Meanwhile, in a analysis screening that 26 of customers arrangement to spend less than last time on the holidays, NPD Assembly has identified televisions and sunglasses as two of the time s bright spots. brooch a report, the psychotherapist assemblage cited other research performed by NPD as indicating that, with the change to digital Small screen still scheduled for February 2009, many customers are looking to buy new digital TVs. NPD s analysis fallout also demonstrated, though, that, at 29 , VHS and DVD discs strength of character be the third most popular festival contribution this season, following attire at 49 and toys at 37 .

Books landed in fourth place at 27 , electronics in fifth place at 23 , and cartridge sports event in sixth place at 22 . NPD s electronics type encompasses TVs in toting up to house the stage systems DVD dramatis personae recorders, GPS systems, cubicle phones, computers, and a numeral of other CE products.

On the other hand, Roger Kay, principal psychotherapist at Endpoint Technologies, thinks that things priced below 200 -- a narrative that doesn t typically apply to either Blu-ray dramatis personae or HDTVs -- strength of character be best positioned this festival season.

Likely to take a hit are the higher value points. Shoppers strength of character come in and browse, but they ll probably leave with smaller packages. Crop like expensive flat-panel TVs, fancy notebooks, making a bet desktops, and high-end phones strength of character likely remain on the shelves in unprecedented numbers, according to Kay.

Earlier this month, Sony reduced the prices of some of its Blu-ray dramatis personae by 100. Still, though, the least expensive BD Live-enabled envelope is priced at 299.
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