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And in Japan, the ratio is even greater for standalone High Def recorders at about 80% to 20%

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In Reply to: RE: Standalone player sales : HD DVD is slaughtering Blu-ray 62% to 37% ..... posted by ZS KEKL on December 16, 2007 at 12:40:09

and with Hi-Def now accounting for 20% of total DVD recorder sales and rapidly rising,it appears the format war has already been won in Japan.

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I'm curious how big an impact the HD recorder market has on the HD movie format war ? - oscar 17:55:31 12/16/07 (5)
Is there really a significant correlation between the relative success of HD recorder sales and HD media players/software sales ? Do the studios really care at all about the success of HD recorders when choosing whether or not to publish movies on Blu-ray or HD DVD ?

If anything, I'd think the Blu-ray-exclusive studios are fairly ambivalent about the "success" of Blu-ray burners in the market because of the increased "copyiability" of Blu-ray movies.
- good question - jaiva 18:24:55 12/16/07 (4)
  but as the recorder also doubles as a player, what impact they have on software sales/rentals will be mainly determined, I would think, by how big the overall market is for player/recorders.
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  - Oh yeah, I forgot about the Blu-ray burner also being a player... - oscar 18:37:09 12/16/07 (3)
    I guess Toshiba being "not very competent" in the Recorder business has led to the inability of HD DVD recording to keep up with Blu-ray's progress in the HD recorder market. Blu-rays' greater storage capacity gives it a big edge in the the computer storage market, at least over HD DVD. I don't know about it's impact on storage requirements for computers in general because of other storage media technology (hard drives, memory sticks, etc...)
    - RE: Oh yeah, I forgot about the Blu-ray burner also being a player... - racerguy 18:15:01 12/17/07 (0)
      > > Blu-rays' greater storage capacity gives it a big edge in the the computer storage market, at least over HD DVD. I don't know about it's impact on storage requirements for computers in general < <
      Neither Blu-ray nor HD DVD has any impact at all outside of the "consumer" computer market, and probably never will. Within the "consumer" computer market, the drive attach rate for both technologies is so low right now that it's almost unmeasurable.
      
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    - Let's not forget that this is also a huge deal with gaming - Jazz Inmate 15:15:41 12/17/07 (1)
      I know folks here aren't so focused on that, but the extra 20 gigs provided by blu-ray is a big issue in gaming. Let's not forget that all PS3 games are on BD.
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      - I get the impression the PS3 could support far more sophisticated games than what's on the XBox. - oscar 18:15:24 12/17/07 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Let's not forget that this is also a huge deal with gaming posted by Jazz Inmate on December 17, 2007 at 15:15:41
        
        Unfortunately, I'm under the impression the "Game development environment" is far more onerous for wouldbe game programmers than for the Xbox 360. Eventually, the PS3 could rule IF they can manage to come up with better development tools and do a better job recruiting software developers.

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