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Yojimbo said:

A few days ago, the BDA also announced that Blu-ray owned 97% of the HD recorder market in Japan. High definition recorders are more popular in Japan where broadcast TV is of a much higher quality. With only 3% of the market, HD DVD recorders have failed to make any penetration into Japanese homes.

Meh

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=701


Broadcast TV quality is better than 1080i in Japan?

Why don't they just record to HD-DVRs.  I imagine they must be free in Japan as well, and they're a lot nicer than swapping discs.