UK Gadgets Worth £74bn November 23, 2007

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There is currently around £74bn-worth of gadgets in UK homes, give or take a billion, according to a new survey from First Direct.

That's made up of 418.5m gadgets and each home has an average of 16. Mobile phones are, unsurprisingly, top of the heap at almost 70m and accounting for £558.4m in value terms.

Just behind are almost 60m TVs, with an average value of £500 and a whopping collective value of £29.8bn. Picking up the bronze are DVD players/recorders at 39.4m, costing around £100 apiece and worth £3.94bn overall.

I’m a little surprised at how far down digital cameras and camcorders placed, and who’d have thought DAB radios were that popular already? To find out where your favourite gadgets ranked, jump now for the full list.-Martin Lynch

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Numbers of gadgets in UK households (numbers in the UK @ average price = cash value in the UK):

* Mobile phones (69.8 million @ £80 = £558.4 million)
* Televisions (59.6 million @ £500 = £29.8 billion)
* DVD players/recorders (39.4 million @ £100 = £3.94 billion)
* Satellite/Freeview boxes/cable TV (29.5 million @ £30 = £885 million)
* Analogue radios (28.5 million @ £20 = £570 million)
* Stereos (28.5 million @ £20 = £570 million)
* Apple iPods/MP3 players (25.2 million @ £80 = £2.02 billion)
* Broadband-enabled desktop/notebook computers: (24.5 million @ £400 = £9.8 billion)
* Digital cameras (23 million @ £300 = £6.9 billion)
* VCRs (22.3 million @ £50 = £1.12 billion) Computers (19.2 million @ £400 = £7.68 billion)
* Games consoles (18.7 million @ £200 = £3.74 billion)
* Digital (DAB) radios (13.2 million @ £80 = £1.06 billion)
* Camcorders (9.6 million @ £300 = £2.88 billion)
* BlackBerrys/PDAs (4.1 million @ £200 = £820 milllion)
* Home cinema projectors (3.4 million @ £500 = £1.7 billion)

Total: 418.5 million devices worth £74.03 billion.

[Tech.co.uk]

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