Blu-ray adoption is growing quickly in the Land of the Rising Sun. According to GfK Marketing Services Japan Ltd's recently released statistics on Japanese home entertainment, Blu-ray Disc recorders sold a record 1.34 million units in 2008. That's an 800% rise from 2007, when only 160,000 recorders were sold in Japan.

Meanwhile, DVD recorder sales dropped off dramatically in 2008, moving 27.6% less units than in 2007. For the whole of 2008, Blu-ray Disc recorders represented 37% of the video recorder market on a volume basis, and 53% on a value basis. Pending some unforeseen disaster, both the total sales numbers and revenue will continue to rise in 2009.

http://www.psu.com/Blu-ray-sales-expand-rapidly-in-Japan-News--a006625-p0.php

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It sounds great. I look forward to blu ray movies dropping to the price level of dvds :P

I hate these "DVD is doomed" threads :P

lol someone has to make them :P

Well Ps3 wen't up and Ps2 went down in 2008 :D

You're a genious. That explains everything

ok, so here we got the "blu ray domination" weekly post.

lets wait until the the "blu ray is doomed" weekly post.

Good news. This can only have a positive impact on the PS3.

Awesom stuff, guess Bluray aint dying after all
Things can only get better with the release of advent children on Bluray also... or was that time frame counted?

But teh DVD!

Too bad the rest of the world doesn't care right now about Blu-Ray, the japs are going to enjoy their new Betamax!