Monday June 21, 2010 - Shelby Cunningham
These days more people are using their PCs to watch and create video, which is upping the demand for PC makers to include video-friendly and capable cards, tuners and drives in their PCs. And as more PCs come ready for people to watch video straight out of the box, less video peripherals are being shipped for aftermarket retail sales.
Retail PC video optical disc drive shipments are dropping rapidly because most desktop and laptop PCs come equipped with DVD drives. Retail PC video optical disc drives were still turning in respectable shipment numbers in 2009 with 62 million units shipped, but are forecasted to decline going down to only 34 million units in 2012. The only PC video peripheral with any growth are PC DTV tuners, which will see shipments of almost 12 million in 2012, up from 6 million in 2008. PC DTV tuner shipments will continue to grow slowly for a while, but retail graphics cards and video optical disc drives will continue their downward fall.
Source: DTC
