Notebooks, laptops, iPads top holiday gift lists
Posted November 8, 2010 9:58 pm.
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Notebooks, laptop computers, and Apple’s iPad are at the top of this year’s 17th Annual Holiday Purchase Pattern Study by the Consumer Electronics Association.
Notably absent from the 2010 survey was DVD players.
“The Blu-ray high definition players – prices are way down. A lot of people have already bought them. Sales are way up on those, but the other part of the equation is more people are downloading movies, either getting them over the Internet or doing pay-per-view cable or satellite,” association spokesman Jim Barry said.
Barry said shoppers will be spending historically high amounts on high-tech toys this season, despite an overall decline in gift spending.
This year, consumers will spend $750 on holiday gifts, down two per cent from last year.
