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A chicken in every pot and an Apple TV in every living room

The connected TV market is expected to boom in 2012. Parks Associates last month said some 20 percent of middle-class households--those with annual incomes of $50,000 to $75,000--plan to buy a smart TV during the closing weeks of 2011, and 12 percent of HHs with income over $75,000 also intend to buy connected TVs.

From the article, "A chicken in every pot and an Apple TV in every living room" by Jim O'Neill

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