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Yojimbo on 27 November 2007

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has announced that they have sold the one millionth Blu-ray title in Europe. Since the format was launched, Blu-ray has gained 73% of the high definition market over its rival HD DVD. The BDA also announced that 20 million PS3 games have been shipped to Europe, all making use of Blu-ray technology.

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



 
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Kratos on 27 November 2007

Good news voor blu-ray.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 27 November 2007

And the HD market is what, 1% of the full DVD market?



 

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tk1989 on 27 November 2007

Europe is also Sony's bitch :P Everyone in Europe loves Sony, so its not really much of a surprise if you ask me.



Cryoakira on 27 November 2007

Seriously, is that really impressive? 1 Million in europe ?
Just so you know, simply in France, DVD reach 180 millions units/year.



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hunter_alien on 27 November 2007

So anyone still not shure who will win the format war ?



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Faxanadu on 27 November 2007

uh oh, what news that in a market where no one cares about that stuff (Europe) the one valid blue ray player (PS3) gets the majority of the share. How is it if you discount the ps3? (For movies bought, just subtract 90% of the movies sold to go with the 90% blueray marketshare of the ps3)

and if someone wonders: i dont know how to write blu-ray correctly and do not care even a bit. i am European.



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Yojimbo on 27 November 2007
Avinash_Tyagi said:
And the HD market is what, 1% of the full DVD market?

Here we go again. Nice predictions does not show your bias at all.

Could be more or less we need DVD numbers. 

 



 
NJ5 on 27 November 2007

Europe is the last region you should worry about regarding HD disc sales. Seriously, virtually no one (except a few PS3 owners) cares about HD movies here.

We don't have the same crazy promotions as in the USA (as in "Blu-Ray / HD-DVD player with a thousand free movies for a peanut").

 



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ChronotriggerJM on 27 November 2007

LOL I love how the title is Blu-ray 73% of Europe HIGH DEFINITION market, and people barge in with there "omg dvd's are teh 1337's" DVD video's aren't considered High Def guys :) Different topic please ^_^

[edit] Anyways good news for Blu-ray I suppose :D, the market isn't big there YET, and it seems like we know who got the head start. Good news for blu ^^ 



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