{"id":5392,"date":"2009-04-16T10:09:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5392"},"modified":"2013-05-04T18:53:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T01:53:57","slug":"home-entertainment-budget-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/home-entertainment-budget-150\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Entertainment Budget: $150"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8475\" alt=\"cash_counting-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cash_counting-S.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"223\" \/>APRIL 16, 2009 \u2022 Based on a tracking study of 10,000 consumers, the NPD Group found that Americans, on average, budget $150 a month for entertainment, much of it spent on subscription-based services, many of them online. In addition, 51% of those who responded said in the past three months they purchased a DVD or Blu-ray disc, 36% bought a video game, and 31% brought home a music CD.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: DFC has always been a big believer in subscription-based services as a way to drive revenue, especially in an online world. However, that being said, the numbers for those buying physical media are quite high. Surprisingly almost as many people purchased a music CD as a video game.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 16, 2009 \u2022 Based on a tracking study of 10,000 consumers, the NPD Group found that Americans, on average, budget $150 a month for entertainment, much of it spent on subscription-based services, many of them online. In addition, 51% of those who responded said in the past three months they purchased a DVD or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5392"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8474,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}