World Cup TV sales offset dip in computing demand says Dixons Carphone

Thursday 6th September 2018 09:42 GMT Anonymous Coward

Three mentions of their data breech, no reminder for us forgetful types that Currys PC World is one of their brands.

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1. Thursday 6th September 2018 10:01 GMT Lee D
  
  I'm sorry, but if you're buying your PC from PC World, it's already game-over for you.
  
  Literally, no hope.
  
  Give up now.
  
  Go back to an Etch-a-Sketch.
  
  Especially if you're reading a tech site online and are "shocked" that PC World are somehow useless.
  
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  1. Thursday 6th September 2018 10:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Special deals.
    
    As it's bricks and mortar too (so no online account needed), special deals and flash sales can sometimes have their benefit. So even the worse retailer can have benefits at times. ;)
    
    However, even the likes of Maplin proved, that sometimes there are no deals! XD
    
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    1. Thursday 6th September 2018 11:16 GMT Dave 126
      
      Re: Special deals.
      
      The article was about the sale of TVs too, not just PCs. Usually they aren't great, but there is the occasional good deal - though I haven't bought a PC from them for years.
      
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    2. Thursday 6th September 2018 14:02 GMT EnviableOne
      
      Re: Special deals.
      
      Ahh but as with the likes of maplin, if you dont have the luxury of Prime NOW! and postivily absoloutly have to have it in the next hour, (Currys) PC World is there for you.
      
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Thursday 6th September 2018 12:03 GMT spold

Going forward....

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as the World Cup beefed up sales of TVs to more than offset crappier demand

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So as an investor (I take it there are some) I can infer that sales will be total pants for the next few years in the absence of a World Cup....

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1. Thursday 6th September 2018 14:49 GMT IsJustabloke
  
  Re: Going forward....
  
  "in the absence of a World Cup"
  
  Or possibly they'll be boosted by European Cup? And there'll be an Olympics in a couple of years too.
  
  I suspect they're all very traditional times for people to upgrade their TVs.
  
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Thursday 6th September 2018 15:35 GMT Anonymous Coward

How on earth does the world cup increase sales of TV's?

Most people who watch football already have them.

It wasn't like it was widely available on UHD so no upgrade path. (BBC Iplayer: internet connection,smart television and if you were in the lucky first few thousand permitting. Also most TV's are hooked up via WiFi and we know what that can be like)

I personally just don't see it.

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1. Friday 7th September 2018 10:10 GMT kevin king
  
  <Quote>It wasn't like it was widely available on UHD so no upgrade path. (BBC Iplayer: internet connection,smart television and if you were in the lucky first few thousand permitting. Also most TV's are hooked up via WiFi and we know what that can be like) </Quote>
  
  People where buying new UHD and HDR HLG TV to see the new services that BBC were putting out .
  
  I have my UHD HDR TV connected to 5Ghz wifi and not had a problem, sounds like someone needs a new router?
  
  The signal was in UHD HDR is you wanted it on iplayer... The England vs Tunisia game proved to be BBC most streamed live event up to that date. BBC stopped access to UHD in the first half for a short period of time as they re-balanced traffic across our CDNs to optimise performance. Things calmed down a bit and they re-enabled UHD access at half time. BBC had just over 35,000 UHD viewers at this point but were shipping around 5Tbits of data per second across all services.
  
  Wimbledomn and the World Cup in UHD http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/5c5b8f80-891d-4b51-babd-8814c1511b4e
  
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