Blu Ray Recorder sales SURPASS dvd sales in japan

[SellmeyourDVD]

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http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/1...ay-player.html


Put a smile on my face

Just another good sign of what is to come!

[hardcore_canadian]

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Blu-ray vanquished its rival HD-DVD earlier this year to emerge as the next generation standard for high definition video storage.

In North America, though it continues to trail DVD as most consumers seem unwilling to trade their DVD players for a Blu-ray one.

Not so in Japan. Blu-ray disc recorders surpassed a 50 percent market share in the first week of November and outpaced sales of DVD disc recorders, says market research company GfK Retail and Technology. That compares to about 10 percent market share that they had just about a year ago.

Average sales price of Blu-ray recorders have been falling this year. In the first week of June 2008, the average price of a Blu-ray recorder was between the equivalent of $1,110 to $1,300. Now they are available at the sub-$1,000 level, says the firm.

Blu-ray disc recorders are replacing DVD recorders at about one-and-a-half times faster than DVD recorders replaced VHS recorders, says GfK.

One of the reasons for this quicker rate of change is the rise in sales of flat panel TVs, says GfK. Blu-ray recorders can record digital high definition broadcasting without any drop in quality, which has ostensibly helped accelerate demand for it.

For those of you at Work

[dialog_gvf]

I'm curious, does anyone have an HD PVR in North America that can burn HD to a DVD? I know Scientific Altanta has one, but I don't know if any cableco deployed it.

There are recorders in Japan that will re-encode MPEG-2 to AVC to bring rates way down, and archive to DVD.

Gary

[supersix4]

AND here we ... GO

[ngkf7]

Meh, still not players. Just recorders. So people in Japan like up-to-date PCs. Still good news though.

[P@t_Mtl]

Not a huge surprise, they love their gadgets and technologies in Japan, it's still good news however.

[Argento Fan]

Good stuff, but no news for North America?