Cripes.
The article is saying that sales of next gen recorders (I presume that means players?) rose from 6.1% to 20% of sales - i.e. regular recorders (i.e. DVD) accounted for 80% os sales (for the period studied, which looks like 2 months, and for the 2,300 stores surveyed).
It then says of the 20% that 90% of that 20% (still following?) were Blu-Ray, meaning that 10% of the 20% was HD DVD.
It also says that as the HD recorders are more expensive the 20% sold accounted for 35% of revenues.
So this does refer to regular DVD players - in that they accounted for 80% of sales vs 20% for HD players, which indicates a big swing for buying HD playes in Japan. It also shows that BR accounts for 90% of sales in Japan - please Toshiba, throw in the towel already!
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
