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Blu-Ray Proliferation

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SmilingRob
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Blu-Ray Proliferation

Postby SmilingRob » December 1st, 2008 7:49 pm

How common is it for a Japanese family to have a Blu-Ray player? There's a movie that I'd like to give as a gift, but I don't want to burden them with buying new equipment.

Thanks,
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Postby jkid » December 5th, 2008 11:27 am

Sorry for the late response. Bluray appears to be doing well in Japan. This fits with what I've seen here. There is far more advertisement for Bluray here than I would've thought.

http://tinyurl.com/6meqro
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Postby SmilingRob » December 5th, 2008 8:25 pm

Awesome thank you!
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Postby JonB » December 10th, 2008 1:35 pm

don't know anyone that owns one - but then even after 8 years I can count the number of Japanese friends houses I've been to on about one hand...
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Postby SmilingRob » January 20th, 2009 1:11 pm

I've been in Japan for a little over two weeks now, and I've been inside about 10 houses. None of them have Blu-Ray, so at this point, the first person's house I go to that has Blu-Ray gets a sweet movie!
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Postby jkid » January 20th, 2009 4:01 pm

the first person's house I go to that has Blu-Ray gets a sweet movie!


I hope you got a Bluray movie that can be played in region A :)
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Postby SmilingRob » January 21st, 2009 12:10 am

Yep! Fortunately, unlike DVD, Japan and the US are in the same region!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Region_codes
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