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Blu-ray shipments finally increase in Japan
SHIPMENTS of Blu-ray players and recorders in Japan have increased to a six-figure level with 122,000 in June alone.
This is a dramatic increase compared to May when it was only 82,000 units.
It is expected that these figures will continue to rise in coming months, as Japanese workers receive a bonus in July and the Olympics in Beijing are held in August. Both of these factors will boost the consumer electronics sector, soothsayers sayeth.
The sector was also boosted by the release of ‘Dubbing 10’ which allows consumers to make numerous copies of TV shows they have recorded.
The question is what it will take to make Blu-ray popular elsewhere? µ
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First Called: Panavision. Like All High Cost Solutions, It Comes & It Goes.

public is enthraled by widescreen, professional theatre stuff. Manufacturers Just Won't Let It Out, Affordably & In quanties so Public can enjoy. More Self Promo on some dinky Electronics Companies is widescream,BRD stuff.

It takes entire system & desire to Pay Twice as Much for just little bit of extra view, often screwing up standard screen stuff on same system.

Its Conspiracy I Tell You. CONSPIRACY. Yet, that extra dab on each end is meaningless, as Film Production Companies just fill it with Background, as Thers No Playback usually.

At BEST, With BRD, Prepare for Black Bars, ethier on Your OLD Equipment w/brd or upon old recordings on new equipment. Its Messy, incompatible,meaningless improvement, World.
drashek
Maybe if the recordable discs didn't cost €9 each? Just maybe?
If you want Blu-ray *recordable* sales to take off, then the media prices have to fall significantly.

At the moment BD-R as a backup is way more expensive per GB than buying a pair of HDD's in RAID1.

I'd buy a BR writer *if* the price per GB backup was competitive; and that drive would in turn would allow me to watch BD-ROM movies.