I imagine they meant drive (not just media). But agreed, do people with game consoles (that splurged for the drive), CD/MiniDisc/SACD/DVD/BluRay/HD DVD/Laser disc players, CD/DVD/BluRay burners, older cars, older PCs/laptops/Mac minis, boom boxes, CDJs.. or multiples thereof not bring the average up?
I have a PERL Cookbook with a mint CD sealed in the cover.
I don't know about a percentage of households I know, but I do know of several households with literally zero means to play back any physical media. No DVD or Blu-ray players, cars don't have CD players, no computers with optical drives, no game consoles, only maybe a Switch for a game console.
I imagine it's still far from most, but it's definitely starting to be a thing.
Oh, I certainly believe there are plenty of households that don't have any devices that play back optical media.
Apart from some very old laptop (which might or might not work), my household doesn't have any CD nor DVD nor Blu-Ray etc drives. No car either, so we couldn't have a CD player in there.
I just doubt these optical-drive-less households like mine form 99% of all households.
I suspect the percentage of drive owners is a lot lower. But I don't think it would be as low as 1%?
If you restrict to 'drives connected to a multi-purpose device so they can eg display medical images sent on disk' the percentage goes lower (but not sure whether all the way to 1%), because most people wouldn't try to use their game consoles for that.
I have a PERL Cookbook with a mint CD sealed in the cover.