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Blu-ray takeup starts to grow
AFTER A SLOW START it seems that Blu-ray is starting to gain some market share.
Projections by the Japan Recording-media Industries Association (JIRA) seem to indicate that global demand for Blu-ray BD-R disks will keep growing to 310 million discs annually in 2012.
Meanwhile CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW disks will be on the decline, Taiwan-based optical disc makers have cited JRIA as indicating.
CD-R figures have been dropping from 5,131 million units last year to 4,416 million this year. JRIA says that this will fall to 3,731 million discs next year and 3,125 million in 2012.
DVD numbers have been falling slowly from 5,271 million units in 2009 to 4,961 this year. They are expected to fall to 4,667 million next year and 4,372 million the year after.
If what the JRIA predicts happens, then Blu-ray should come crashing in to fill the gap. However the figures do not seem to suggest that.
Last year Blu-ray sold 44 million units and this year it will manage to sell 98 million discs. Next year this will grow to 185 million units and in 2012 it will grow to 310 million.
Even allowing for the fact that Blu-ray allows the storage of more data, it indicates that there is a gap between Blu-ray volume and what DVD and CD have been reliably providing.
It would seem to indicate that this gap will be made up by Internet based storage and the cloud. Apparently after the Blu-ray versus HD-DVD war, Blu-ray arrived too late and technology moved on. µ
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There's a lot less use for BD-R than for Blu-Ray as a distribution medium, and I suppose that many computers in homes or offices that can play Blu-Ray can't store data onto new discs - only DVD+/-R/W or CD-R/W. And yeah, you can buy a DVD's worth of re-useable Flash RAM for... about twenty times the cost of one recordable disc, but it's easier to carry and use. I use DVD or CD for data archive, depending on what the data is.
"Blu-ray arrived too late and technology moved on"
this sounds like someone is trying to hype something else.
The alternatives I've seen so far(apple and a couple of vid on demand services) are simply rubish.
I like HD films(bluray). I buy or rent one, stick it in my player and enjoy watching it on my full HD plasma.
I'm in control and I don't need an internet connection!!!
The alternatives involve having very fast internet connections ,lots of patience , accounts , credit cards , security,and a reduction in quality which I wont accept.
As far clouds are concerned, this is still a buzz word involving a lot of hot air and marketing crap.I've yet to be even remotely touched by anything cloud-like.
A study can not be taken seriously when the final conclusion is so ridiculous.
moved on to what?
Apple TV , itunes?netflix? LOL
if that is the future, then im out.
DVD s are dropping not only because of Blue-rays discs but usb flash memory is becoming very cheap! i didn't buy DVD disc for transfer data for the last year... and i'm not the only one ;)