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The study forecasts that consumer DVD recorders are likely to see significant consumer take-up beginning this year as the market responds to more integration of supplementary features, such as storage and digital video recording, facilitated by an internal hard-disk drive (HDD). This year, the proportion of DVD recorders with integrated HDDs is expected to exceed 65% of units shipped in Japan and 50% of those shipped in the US in 2005, with… Read More

The shipments shot up 416% to 22.92 million units in the global market, and 362% to 5.93 million units in the Japanese market. The Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) announced Thursday the result of its survey on the 2003 shipments of information devices, including displays, printers and magnetic storage devices. JEITA expects that global sales of DVD recorders will hit 88 million units by 2006, and that… Read More