Recession? Super Bowl may help to sell over 2.5 million HDTVs

Yes, the economy is struggling, yet…according to a Consumer Electronics Association survey, over 2.6 million HDTVs will be due to Super Bowl fever, a tick upwards from the two million predicted last year at this time.

As far as year total sales, those are predicted to be around 29.8 million (out of 34.5 million digital TVs), topping 2008′s total by 3+ million, primarily because prices are low and continuing to slowly drop, probably hitting rock bottom towards the middle of this year or so. LCD’s will be the most popular, with Plasma only expect to account for 10% of the year’s total sales.

March Madness, the World Cup and other events taking place soon will serve to drive sales even more.