PC World, owned by Dixons, runs a number of computer superstores in the UK. This is quoted from the PC World Digital Digest:
* At PC World more than 50% of new PCs are now sold with a remote control and feature media software such as Windows Media Centre Edition as standard, reflecting the growing role that the home computer now plays in home entertainment.
* Wireless networking product sales are up more than 100% year on year, with industry experts predicting continued growth. Reasons that consumers are choosing to go wireless include: to stream content throughout the home, to share a broadband Internet connection and also share devices such as printers amongst multiple PCs around the home.
* Digital Photography is the dominant format for images in the UK home. PC World sold one portable photo printer every minute throughout December 2005, more than three times the amount sold during the same period last year. There has also been an upsurge in the sale of storage devices, such as external hard drives, reflecting the upsurge in data-intensive content in people's homes.
* The digital music sector continued to grow rapidly in 2005, and in the week before Christmas PC World customers spent over £34 per minute on iPod accessories. PC World, Dixons and Currys also sold more than 20 MP3 players per minute in the ten weeks leading up to Christmas. Digital music downloads are also driving broadband adoption in the UK, as customers integrate their music collections with their MP3 players and their PCs.
