Cost of UHD Blu Ray - Is MS subsidizing Xbone S, or is Sony just milking it?

[Pemalite]

mutantsushi said:

Pemalite said:

The cost is likely less than that.

There are plenty of PC OEM drives that just need a firmware update to enable 4k Blu Ray, so the costs of the 4k Blu Ray technology itself looks to be likely zero. You are probably just looking at higher prices between regular drives and 4k drives due to 4k being seen as a premium where extra money can be made.

Right, that's why I've written on production costs vs. market costs where perceived premiums can apply.
If you have better source of pricing (for BDXL vs. non-BDXL), I'd love to hear it, that's exactly why I created this thread.

Hope this is the information you need: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18728620

There are plenty of other drives that only need the same.
LG BH16NS50, BH16NS55, 2nd gen BH/WH14NS40.

Basically majority of drives for the last 12+ months have supported BDXL, but you need more than just BDXL Blu-ray support to playback 4k Blu Rays.
You need various DRM schemes like AACS Legacy+Online for both hardware and software, which I would assume the consoles can side step anyway.

Many 2015 (Even a few 2013 drives) Fuji drives also only require a Firmware update to support Version 2 format disks and/or AACS 2 as per the whitepaper:
ftp://ftp.seagate.com/sff/INF-8090.PDF