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Demand High For HDTVs, Smartphones, High-Speed Access

Consumers aren't letting the recession get in the way of their love affair with high-definition TVs, smartphones and network gear that allows them to make faster connections to the Internet for activities like online gaming and viewing videos, according to a new study by Forrester Research.

Half of U.S. adults are gamers; almost three-quarters of American households have a broadband Internet connection; and nearly half of those households own an HDTV, with 10 million units sold in 2008, Cliff Edwards reports. And their fling with the Internet is about to grow much more intimate.

"In the next several years consumers will increasingly rely on a ubiquitous Net that is instantaneously accessible on a wide variety of devices, from mobile phones to laptops to new form factors such as e-readers," says Forrester researcher Charles Golvin.

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