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Please stop being negative. See here the USA DVD facts from CE

Posted by Ole Lund Christensen on June 29, 2007 at 14:03:19:
1997 349,000 players USD 171 million USD 489.97 average HH 0%
1998 1,079,000 players USD 421 million USD 390,18 average HH 1%
1999 4,079,000 players USD 1,099 million USD 270,00 average HH 5%
2000 8,499,000 players USD 1,713 million USD 201,55 average HH 13%
2001 12,707,000 players USD 2,102 million USD 165 average HH 21%

DVD was then the fastest growing CE product. Still it took 5 years to get 21%. see link
SONY PS2 came in 2000 with DVD player build in.

SONY PS3 have in less than a year done 1,500,000 units. That is more than all DVD players did in first 2 years.

In addition HD DVD have sold 150,000 standalone players and 150,000 for Xbox, and Blu Ray standalone players are at 100,000 units.

So as far as I can see, HD playback in total is doing just fine in USA compared to what DVD did. Mainly due to SONY PS3.