Demand For DVD Discs To Grow 30-40% In 2006
The Japan Recording-Media Industries Association (JRIA) predicts that 2006 global demand for blank DVD discs (+R, -R, +RW, and -RW), will grow from 2005 by 41% to 5.541 billion discs, according to JRIA.
The Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK) of the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), also present at the meeting, however, was more conservative than JRIA, and projected 2006 global demand to rise 30% from this year to about 5.0 billion DVD discs. The largest growth should occur for 16x DVD+R/-R and DVD+R/-R DL (single-sided double-layer) discs, IEK pointed out.
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TRIA forecast: 2006 global demand and output of blank DVD and CD-R discs |
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Format of optical discs |
Demand |
Production |
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Volume (billion discs) |
Y/Y |
Volume (billion discs) |
Y/Y |
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DVD |
+R/-R (write-once) |
5.159 |
42% |
5.674 |
42% |
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+RW/-RW (rewritable) |
0.382 |
32% |
0.420 |
32% |
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Aggregate |
5.541 |
41% |
6.094 |
41% |
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CD-R |
6.911 |
(3%) |
7.905 |
(3%) |
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Source: DigiTimes
