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Comments: 1 +-   Why Americans don't buy DVD players that record.-> on Thursday January 17 2008, @01:56AM Ant

Submitted by Ant on Thursday January 17 2008, @01:56AM
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Ant writes "CNET News.com reports that recording DVD players have been popular in Europe and Asia, but have fallen flat in the United States (U.S.). Most companies don't even bother to put much effort into marketing them in this country... ... Cable television (TV) penetration is far higher in the States than Asia or Europe. With cable, the same show can appear on a channel several times. In Europe and Japan, viewers need to grab it when you can. "The non-recording DVD player is quite popular in this country (the U.S.), but they are not popular in Japan at all... Here, you use them for the rentals. In Japan, they use it for recording." TiVo also took off more rapidly in the States and elsewhere. TiVo, he added, is also one of the reasons selling TVs with embedded hard drives in the States remains a challenge. Selling these on the other two continents is far easier. Consumers interested in digital video recorders (a) already own one or (b) have more options on how to put one in their living room. Of course, the recording debate doesn't apply to video cameras. Americans are shifting from tape to disc and hard drive camcorders..."
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  • The set-top DVD recorder just doesn't hold much interest. Most people technologically-savvy enough to know what one is about already own a home computer capable of recording DVD material. It's so much more flexible to do it from a PC, because then you have *editing* tools. It's just like my Sony Digital-8 camcorder has a bunch of built-in video titling and editing functions, all of which I've *never* used - because it's VASTLY superior tackling that on a PC's full-size display, after importing the raw fo
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