Japan: Blu-ray gets 18.2% share in total video market sales

[Grubert]

Japan is known as a country were a product or a gadget reaches a huge group of people in a very short time. The Japanese write books on their mobile phones and use mobile internet like it's been there for a century. So, if Blu-ray sales hit a record, than that must be in Japan. The Blu-ray Disc Association claims that the format has gained 18.2% share in the total video market sales in Japan last month.

GfK Japan obtained the data that makes the BDA believe that their format is sold more and more on the Asian island. After a period of decline in December and January, February showed a 18.2% share. DVD remains to be the dominant optical storage medium for entertainment with a 80.5% share. Blu-ray's former competitor HD DVD still represents 2-3% of the total sales, claims the Blu-ray Disc Association.

Back in September Blu-ray's share was a mere 1.3%... What a few months can do to a format, it can die, or it can grow.

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Blu-ray...-in-Japan.html

[Blubaru]

W00t!

[DetroitSportsFan]

Very impressive.

[Scorxpion]

Just wait till everyone owned Playstation 3 especially the package that include Metal Gear Solid so new customers will enter the high definition and sales will increase to a new level.

I'm expecting DVD to be broken at the end of 2009.

[HeavyHitter]

Very nice!

[dialog_gvf]

Japan has had recorders from late 2006, as we sit here twiddling our thumbs waiting for any indication we will EVER see them in North America.

The TV networks are not only putting out mostly trash, they are stopping us from purchasing equipment to archive what little is left, because they want to sell us the discs they produce (whenever they get around to producing them).

How many of you can burn an HD stream from your HDPVR without using a PC?

Gary

[Blu Haze]

i wish i could record HDTV onto a BD that would roc