At a round robin test seminar in Taipei, held by the Re-writable Products Promotion Initiative (RW PPI) under the Japan-based DVD Forum on March 8th, market survey organization BOC revealed that is expected the global demand for 8.5GB DVD+R DL / DVD-R DL to more than double in 2007. BOC cited growing demand for high definition content in predicting an increase of 122% in 2007.
He noted that of the global sales value for all optical discs, Blu-ray and HD DVD are expected to account for just 2% overall in 2007, and 11% in 2011. Therefore, Aizawa believes that production of high definition DVD discs using DVD manufacturing equipment and the advanced H.264 codec for example, will be successful as it will be significantly cheaper than producing a blue-laser disc. This, he believes, will raise demand for DVD significantly, particularly double layer discs.
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