rocketpig on 21 August 2007
| fuhraud said: This is from an Associated Press article I just read through the NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Dueling-DVD-Formats.html "Blu-ray discs can hold more data -- 50 gigabytes compared with HD DVD's 30 GB -- but the technology requires new manufacturing techniques and factories, boosting initial costs. HD DVDs, on the other hand, are essentially DVDs on steroids, meaning movie studios can turn to existing assembly lines to produce them in mass." If that is true, it looks to be an added benefit of long-term cost reduction if HD DVD wins out. Less infrastructure and R+D costs to refine the disc replication process. |
This is one factor I read about quite some time back that hasn't been touched on recently. If current DVD lines can be retrofitted to transform into an HD-DVD line, the cost savings could be huge.
As I've said all along, time will tell how this all will work out and the war is far from over, in fact it has hardly even started.
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