It was fun while it lasted. Yesterday's report that American consumers in the first three months of 1996 had for the first time bought more PCs than TVs in a fiscal quarter was incorrect. In fact, TVs outsold PCs on the consumer market by a margin of more than 4 to 1.
The accounting error was made by the Consumer Electronics Manufacturing Association, which reported Monday that 660,000 TVs were sold in the first quarter of 1996. A representative reportedly misread a table, and CEMA corrected the mistake. The actual figure was 4.6 million.
About 937,000 PCs were sold through consumer channels in the same period, according to Computer Intelligence InfoCorp.
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