Blu-ray to HD DVD Sales Ratio in Japan up to 9:1?
Posted by Dave Cowl
closeAuthor: Dave Cowl
Name: Dave Cowl
Email: dave@formatwarcentral.com
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About: Originally from New Zealand, Dave now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Dave's day job
involves developing high resolution LCoS projectors.
Dave also has a strong interest in cinema and film making, and has
always been an early adopter - he still uses his Sony DVP-S7000 DVD
Player and also owns first generation Blu-ray, HD DVD and DTheater
D-VHS equipment.
Dave has been following the HD Disc format war since the beginning,
which resulted in the Blu-ray Statistics and HD DVD Statistics
websites, designed to track the studio progress with features as they
have released HD media product.See Authors Posts (350) on October 2, 2007
Filed Under: Blu-ray, Format War, HD DVD
News from CEATEC 2007 in Japan indicates that the Blu-ray sales are as high as 9:1 and that there are no HD DVD titles in the top 10 titles.
Other slides in the presentation show increasing hardware support internationally for Blu-ray but little for HD DVD, and also indicate that Fujitsu has ended support for laptops with HD DVD in Japan.
It will be interesting to see how things continue in Japan, and how long Universal and Paramount decide to stay out of the Blu-ray market there. Being in the same region as the USA, Japan could be an interesting source of movies if the HD DVD exclusive studios decide to release in Blu-ray in Japan.
Related posts:
- Blu-ray Making Significant Advances in Japan
- Warner, Why No HD DVD/DVD Combos in Japan?
- Blu-ray Recorders Outsell DVD Recorders in Japan
- Paramount Jumps Over The Hedge To HD DVD Exclusivity
- Warner’s ‘300′ Flexes it’s HD Muscles to the Tune of 250K Sales in the First Week
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