Demand to rise for DVD burners

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Posted on Thursday 19th of February, 2004 at 07:07 by DiViDeZeRo
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High bandwidth connections, more and more file sharing programs with more and more users. This also influences the sales stimulation of CD and DVD Burners, as we can read in an article published by the Taipei Times

"Taiwanese digital video disk (DVD) burner makers are expected to increase their global market share this year as the growing trend of burning downloaded online music and films to DVD is fueling demand, industry analysts said yesterday.

Global DVD-burner shipments are expected to nearly double to around 47.5 million units this year, up 90 percent from 25 million units shipped last year, the private market researcher Topology Research Institute estimated yesterday.

Increasing multimedia downloading from the Internet is driving up the demand for DVD burners, Jimmy Tsau, a Topology analyst, said at a seminar in Taipei.

More and more people download music and movies from the Internet, which in turn need a more powerful burner than a compact disk [CD] burner to burn to DVD, he said. The capacity of a DVD is about six to seven times that of a CD.

Analysts said the climbing demand for DVD burners will help double local companies' global market share from last year's 16 percent to 32 percent this year."

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