BY THE NUMBERS
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Percentage change (1986 to 1987) in retail purchases of: Videocassette recorders -0.5%
Projection color televisions -7.8%
Color televisions with built-in stereo decoding +29.1%
Video “cam-corders” +49.2%
Source: Electronic Industries Assoc.
Year-to-date movie box-office receipts: 1985 $1,926,700,000
1986 $1,724,800,000
1987 $2,010,700,000
Source: Variety
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