The strength in this component, which includes apparel and home entertainment goods, bodes well for Christmas retail sales.

The season's busiest days occurred on Dec. 12 and 13, but we've seen continued sales momentum as Christmas neared.

It's going to come down to how sales are pre-Christmas, what we hear from the retail sector, ... I would expect next week, while remaining positive, to have not as robust a move as we saw this week.

It's cyclical. We are a mature industry, and we've had these cycles before. DVDs and home entertainment sales are not going to kill us if TV didn't kill us. We're going to survive and thrive.

It's virtually impossible to identify at retail which units have the defective component.

At the same time, we saw solid sales increases in the front-end of the store, especially during the Christmas and Valentine's Day seasons.