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Market share of notebooks with Blu-ray drives to rise to 10%

Daniel Fleshbourne   on 28 November 2007 - 10:35 · 3 comments & 2663 views

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The market share of notebook PCs with Blu-ray drives is expected to increase from 1% this year to 10% in 2008 due to notebook makers more willing to adopt cheaper Blu-ray combo optical disc drives (ODDs) and the fact that Intel's CPU technology is able to support Blu-ray based multimedia, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report which cited sources at Matsushita.

Sources at Taiwan slim ODD maker Quanta Storage, however, were quoted by the paper as saying that Blu-ray ODDs are still expensive, so the market scale of notebooks with Blu-ray drives in 2007 and 2008 will still be very small. Slim-type DVD burners will still be mainstream in the notebook market, added the paper

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(1 reply) #1 Swordnyx on 28 Nov 2007 - 15:51
Isn't Blu-ray losing to HDDVD for a lot?
#1.1 DaveBG on 28 Nov 2007 - 19:16
Blu-ray is winning so far and surpassed HD DVD last year in sales.

See latest stats:
http://www.engadgethd.com/media/2007/11/nielsen111807.png

#2 vetSlimy on 29 Nov 2007 - 05:08
More bad news for hd dvd :/

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