Monday April 3, 2006 6:34 pm
The Average US Household Owns 26 Consumer Electronic Items
Posted by John Goulden Categories: Corporate News, Home Entertainment
Research studies have shown that research studies can cause brain cancer in researchers. Well, maybe not, but it does seem that for everything in this world, somewhere a study of its effects on society exists. Take the latest study from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) which states that the average household in the US owns 26 pieces of consumer electronics. That number is up from last year where only 25 products were owned, so somebody must have been a good boy or girl around their birthday.
The top five areas of growth were shown to be MP3 players, digital cameras, car video systems, in-dash CD players and notebook computers. Of the products surveyed, the top five won’t come as a surpise to anyone with the television easily topping the list with 95% penetration. Following closely behind was the VCR (87%), cordless phones (85%), DVD players (81%), and wireless phones (78%).
Maybe it’s just me, but the survey’s magic number of 26 doesn’t even begin to make a dent in the number of electronic items at my house that slurp happily away at the power grid or chew through batteries. Anyone else blow way past the average 26?
