High definition media like HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc has increase to account for just under 20 per cent of Japanese consumers" retail recorder purchases, numbers from market watcher GfK show. And of the two HD formats, Blu-ray has been outselling HD DVD by a hefty margin.
For the week ending 12 November 2007, DVD"s share of the Japanese retail disc recorder sales was 80.2 per cent, down from 83.4 per cent the previous week, GfK"s figures - supplied, we should say, by the Japanese wing of the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) - show. For the previous three weeks, moving backwards, DVD"s share was 84.8 per cent, 91.9 per cent and 94.7 per cent, respectively.