Household penetration figures for consumer electronics

The CEA has provided household penetration figures for various consumer electronic items.  These are available on tonight's edition of Mark Schubin's mostly weekly memo on digital television.  Schubin writes:  "... This next list is household penetration figures.  They used to be based on a telephone survey, but, when more people said they had digital television than the number that had been manufactured, CEA extrapolated that figure from the dealer sales.  CEA still says 85% of "DTV" is HDTV, and others says about half of HDTVs have any way of getting HDTV signals (via broadcast, cable, or satellite).  Here are some of the CEA household penetration figures for the beginning of this year.  I call your attention to the penetration figure for mobile phones; compare it to the extraordinary sales to dealers listed above.  Penetration takes time:
     - TV/radio/color TV            98%
     - VCR                                       90%
     - DVD                                       82%
     - Stereo TV                             76%
     - Modems                                75%
     - Wireless [mobile] phone  73%
     - Camcorder                           55%
     - Home theater sound         36%
     - TV/VCR combo                   35%
     - DTH satellite                       31%
     - Monochrome TV                29%
     - Projection TV                       23%
     - LCD TV                                  22%
     - "DTV"                                     20%
     - PVR                                         11% ..."

Comments

[Lisa]

Can anyone clarify the penetration variance between Digital TV sets (HD monitors) and actual HDTV sets?

We have data on consumers who subscribe to an HD service via cable and DBS.

Industry estimates are all over the place.