BD loses ground to DVD even with $199 BD players

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Rob6021 said:

bbsin said:

Rob6021 said:
There's no reason for blu-ray disks to not be the same price as DVDs, Their own greed is doing them in.

right, and there's no reason why PS3s shouldn't be the same price as PS2s.... and HDTVs should also be the same price as SDTVs.

 

 

 

It only costs about 10% more to make a Blu ray disk vs a DVD rom disk when using mass duplication methods. Sure theres a bit more that goes into 'tuning' up the film and extras for 6x resolution - but I hightly doubt it is really all that much. Besides they've spent a long time finding the sweet spot for what people would want to buy a DVD for - blu ray customers really arn't all that different.

 

10%? maybe in terms of raw manufacturing. You're dismissing the security features and extra UI that's put in there. Once you add the licensing costs of a newer format with new tech, it'll come out alot more than 10%.