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In Reply to: RE: I would bet there is a strong relationship between MC use and both age and fewer $ in the system. nt posted by Norm on May 20, 2007 at 12:09:29
says that it's his younger prospective customers who are interested in multichannel. It's his older customers who prefer two-channel--and they're a shrinking breed. He also indicates that his video-related versus audio-only sales break out at about 60%/40%, which he says is a lower video-to-audio-only ratio than the reported A/V retailer average. At least some of the multichannel preference appears to be video-driven.
In my case (an oldster with a hefty system investment), it's not dollars per se that drive my two-channel preference, but priorities and a perception that in its current state MCH is a minefield of diminishing returns. There's still a lot of recorded music out there that I'd like to get my hands on, and the dollars I might consider sinking into MCH hardware would be much better spent on the music itself.
Jim
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