Comment by derektank

Comment by derektank 5 days ago

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>TV ownership? trending down.

Do you have sales or survey data to support this claim? I’m willing to believe individual households might be less likely to purchase TVs, but my understanding is that manufacturers are producing as many or even more screens than ever, though that might be for commercial or business use. Incidentally, it’s efficiency from this scale that allows manufacturers to sell televisions at such low prices, not a lack of demand.

doctorpangloss 5 days ago

haha well you wouldn't have thought that at some point in the past, tv set ownership was like 100%, so of course it has gone down, but it's still trending down. this also seems kind of obvious to me.

    Household
    Ownership
    Rate       2011     2020     2023
    -------------------------------------
    TV Set     ~99% [3] 96% [3]  88% [1]
    Smartphone 35% [2]  85% [2]  90% [1]
[1] https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/ces2024-smartphone-ownersh...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/

[3] https://www.nielsen.com/insights/2020/nielsen-estimates-121-...

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