A recent survey on Kakaku.com showed that still a majority of the Japanese want to buy a Blu-ray recorder. The website ran the survey from August 18th until the 25th in 2008 and received a total of 4,978 responses. Kakaku.com said that its survey targeted trend-sensitive visitors, and that the website was suprised that more than ten percent (11.6%) already owned a Blu-ray recorder.
Just over one percent of the respondents never heard about Blu-ray and 31.5% knows what it is but has no intention of buying it. A total of 16.7% really wants to buy a Blu-ray recorder while 39% "considers" to buy one, meaning that over half of all respondents is positive and considers to buy Blu-ray recorders.
Nevertheless a large group (31.5%) definitely isn’t planning on spending a single yen on a BD recorder. Based on these results Kakaku.com forecasts that the penetration of BD recorders will exceed 30% in Japan in the near future.
9 Comments
- guest
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- Posted on: 09 Sep 08 17:20
Remember, this is not a survey of the general population- this is folks polled from an electronics and entertainment website! The reason I know (or think) this is because I went to the site and this is what it looks like- but I can't read Japanese. But, it certainly was not some site that would not benefit from a favorable result of such a poll. But, when it came out wrong for them, they simply twisted the results! No way in heck are 11% of the GENERAL population of Japan, in possesion of a Blu-ray player unless they are throwing in PS3 which they conveniently failed to mention or break out separately. The title of this story is inaccurate and misleading to the public, but I guess I would do the same thing if I was trying to unload Blu-ray from my shelves.
Damn I am sick of all this Blu-ray hype on the 'Net. Blu-ray is an overpriced, overhyped format that has too much DRM for anybody with a lick of sense!
- guest
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- Posted on: 09 Sep 08 20:36
Your blind hatred of Blu-ray rivals my own.
I guess maybe they sell a lot of bluray recorders in a PC or laptop there, but I am having a hard time believing 11% people have one in Japan! I think they are more a curiosity than popular.
- guest
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- Posted on: 09 Sep 08 22:32
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- Posted on: 10 Sep 08 03:12
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