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Panasonic provided FCC staff with some data to back up...

Panasonic provided FCC staff with some data to back up claims made in a Jan. 22 meeting with Media Bureau and Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau officials that DVD players are “a mature technology” and that all physical media players,…

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including Blu-ray players, “face increasing competition from online streaming” and VOD services, a letter to the FCC said (http://bit.ly/13b3qie). According to CEA market research, total U.S. shipments of removable media players fell 25 percent from 2010 to 2011 and another 16 percent from 2011 to 2012, it said. Though Blu-ray player shipments increased in those years, shipments of a subset of those players with Internet-streaming connections increased faster than those without the connections, it said. “This increase may be an indication of consumers’ growing interest in connecting to video content from the Internet,” and having access to DVDs and Blu-rays on one device, the letter said.