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HDTV Almanac - NeTV Sales to Grow

Parks Associates estimates that about a quarter of the new TVs sold in 2010 were able to connect to the Internet. The same group forecasts that this will reach 76% by 2015. These predictions make sense to me, though it’s not all about streaming content from Web sites.

From the article, "HDTV Almanac - NeTV Sales to Grow" by Alfred Poor

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