QVC sales of Commodore DTV product tops 194,000 in 2 weeks

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From comp.sys.cbm:

Jim Brain   Dec 9, 12:29 pm      

Since a number of people looked at me funny at World of Commodore
when I mentioned 194000 units had been sold, I called QVC today
and had them check inventories:


E22494 (the single unit) : ~6000 units left
E25376 (the double unit) : ~8000 units left.


You have to multiply the second number (2 DTVs in each "unit"), so
there are 24000 units left to sell. By definition, that means
226000 units have been sold.


A far cry from 14-20 million units, but it's only been 2 weeks


Jim

 

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StormLord wrote:
Can anyone explain whats that DTV
I'm also into retro C8bit computing and I haven't heard of that...

Look HERE.

Its a joystick that hooks directly to your TV and plays 10 classic Commodore 64 games. It's made by Commodore(Tulip), but was at least in part designed by the fabulous Jeri Elsworth of C=One fame. QVC bought the ENTIRE initial batch of 200,000 and have almost sold them all off in 2 weeks. The cool thing is because it was designed by jeri, you can hack a keyboard to the thing and maybe more. It's supposedly even got basic in it.