What the HELL is up with Blu Ray

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pbroy said:

Brun2003 said:
I heard that sony spent around a billion dollars developing it with toshiba if thats true that seems wierd

 

Toshiba made HD DVD.

Blu-ray is a new tech that lots of companies want to make money on. The companies making the players don't want to price it too cheap so that they don't make much money from it. That's one of the main reasons why Toshiba was the only company making the HD DVD players. They were selling it for so cheap that other companies wouldn't make a profit trying to make hardware themselves.

The same goes for the movies. They want to price it so that they can make considerably more money from it than the DVD version.

I think he's referring to the development of the cell. Which toshiba was involved in.