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JAPANESE DVD GROWTH SURGES AHEAD OF US : But total US shipments still way ahead.(Brief...

* Over 20m DVD players have now been shipped to dealers in the US market

* Growth rates in the US DVD market have fallen from 100 to 20-30 per cent in a year

* Nevertheless, this market is still a long way from maturing

* Growth rates in Japan and US were identical for the second half of 2000

* Two markets have since 'decoupled', Japan maintaining 100 per cent growth in 2001

* Only 2m DVDs shipped in Japan since Jan 1999, compared with 17.5m in US

Over 20m DVD players have now been shipped to the US market since

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