I've said here on PVR Wire plenty of times before that I genuinely believe the 'media center' PC (or even Mac, for that matter) will slowly become the dominant source for media content in homes around the globe as technology improves.Now, Pacific Media Associates, a company which specialises in large-screen display markets, has released findings from its annual North American Reseller Survey which suggest that the number of HDTVs and front projectors connected to Media Center PCs could triple from over the period 2005 to 2007.
Based on information gathered from dealers in the professional and consumer markets, results also indicate that consumers are happy to spend more money on a 42-inch LCD HDTV than for a 42-inch plasma HDTV.
You can find out more about the study at the PMA website.
1. Microsoft is pushing MCE on consumer level computers. 90% of the computers I see advertised include MCE. Will any of these be connected to HDTV's? Doubtful. Will any of these be used as media center pc's rather than general purpose pc's? Doubtful.
MCE is great. If I purchased a windows based pc today I'd get one with MCE. But simply because more pc's are being sold with MCE does not imply that the general public is using them for MCE.
Posted at 5:01PM on Aug 7th 2006 by Andrew