Reuters: Flat-screen TVs, game consoles top holiday list

Wii and especially 360 should have a big year (due to small shipments,
PS3 won't). BR and HD-DVD players won't be, altho 360 HD-DVD has sold
well from what I have noticed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061127/tc_nm/retail_electronics_hotlist_dc
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - What's hot this holiday season in consumer
electronics are big-screen televisions, new video gaming consoles,
digital cameras and notebook PCs.

"No. 1 are big-screen televisions," said analyst Stephen Baker of
market research firm NPD Group. "They're not horribly complicated and
they're not terribly expensive. You can get them now and don't have to
wait for prices to fall."

In the not-so-hot department, analysts named desktop personal
computers, as consumers gravitate to notebook PCs that are nearly as
powerful as desktops and where prices continue to fall. They also
pointed to DVD players and recorders, where the industry has yet to
settle on a standard for high-definition DVDs, as another slower sales
category.

Next-generation video game consoles new to the market, such as Sony's
PS3 and the Nintendo Co. Ltd. (7974.OS) Wii are also on the top of
shoppers' must-have list this season. XBox 360 gaming consoles also
remains very popular.

"The XBox 360 is on everybody's list," said Kay of Endpoint
Technologies. "And the PS3 and the Wii, of course, if you can get them
anywhere. Those are hot."

"TheGame" <n0n0n0n0n0 DeleteThis @excite.com> wrote in message
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> Wii and especially 360 should have a big year (due to small shipments,
> PS3 won't). BR and HD-DVD players won't be, altho 360 HD-DVD has sold
> well from what I have noticed.
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061127/tc_nm/retail_electronics_hotlist_dc
> SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - What's hot this holiday season in consumer
> electronics are big-screen televisions, new video gaming consoles,
> digital cameras and notebook PCs.
>
> "No. 1 are big-screen televisions," said analyst Stephen Baker of
> market research firm NPD Group. "They're not horribly complicated and
> they're not terribly expensive. You can get them now and don't have to
> wait for prices to fall."
>
> In the not-so-hot department, analysts named desktop personal
> computers, as consumers gravitate to notebook PCs that are nearly as
> powerful as desktops and where prices continue to fall. They also
> pointed to DVD players and recorders, where the industry has yet to
> settle on a standard for high-definition DVDs, as another slower sales
> category.
>
> Next-generation video game consoles new to the market, such as Sony's
> PS3 and the Nintendo Co. Ltd. (7974.OS) Wii are also on the top of
> shoppers' must-have list this season. XBox 360 gaming consoles also
> remains very popular.
>
> "The XBox 360 is on everybody's list," said Kay of Endpoint
> Technologies. "And the PS3 and the Wii, of course, if you can get them
> anywhere. Those are hot."

I was shopping "again" for tv's and almost every guy looking at a hi-def set
were gamers.
I was kind of suprised how many of them were telling the people waiting on
them "I need something good for gaming as well as hi-def broadcast".

Everyone one of the mentioned either the 360, PS3 or both.

Of course they were getting horrible advice from the sales people but that
can only be expected at places like CC and Tweeter.