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First week of November saw the high definition format exceed 50 per cent of the market share
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Yay? Blu-ray recorders now more popular than DVD recorders in Japan
CrunchGear —
... for nearly a year. There’s the perception that DVDs look and sound “good enough,” the fact that Blu-ray discs don’t offer the same practical improvement that DVDs did over VHS (no more rewinding, chapter selection, commentaries, fun but useless extras, etc.) and that Blu-ray discs are still regularly $10-$15 more expensive than their DVD counterpart. In this economy, folks are looking to save as much money as they can, and who could blame them?
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Blu-ray beats DVD for first time over in Japan
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... by Blu-ray players which is a significant increase from 10 per cent which was recorded in October 2007.
GfK also conceded that Blu-ray players were replacing DVD players 1.5 times faster than the DVD players replaced VHS machines. What do you make of this? Many people doubted whether or not the Blu-ray format would become a success or not, but this figure suggest that this might be starting to change with more and more consumers switching to high definition.
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