http://wesleytech.com/blu-ray-vs-hd-dvd-replication-costs-revealed/111/
This article came out several months ago, but I think it is very relevant. People who think that HD-DVD is cheaper to produce are not exactly correct. Blu-Ray actually has a cheaper per GB cost. Here are some of the tables from the article. These are costs taken from an actual company.
HD-DVD is not significantly cheaper, so it is not a financial reason (well beyond receiving $150 million) that Paramount and Dreamworks jumped the Blu-Ray ship.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
