sharky said: Look at what IGN says
April 20, 2007 - In breaking news today, it would appear that mega-retailer WalMart has contracted a Chinese manufacturer to produce millions of low-cost HD-DVD players. Though somewhat obfuscated by translation issues and the breaking nature of the news, the current internet consensus suggests that Taiwan based manufacturer Fuh Yuan, in cooperation with TDK, will produce the blue laser drives for 2-million HD-DVD players. Broadcom will reportedly supply the system-on-a-chip decoder, and China Great Wall will handle final assembly. The deal represents around US $100,000,000, and it is reported that a new manufacturing plant has already been opened to fulfill the order. |
Really they are getting China to do the cheap labor behind the HD-DVD manufacture. That's not a surprise as the price of HD-DVD/Blue Ray discs are about the same price as each other. Trying to force a player out at a cheap price with the lesser support behind it in terms of movies and companies is really a short term cash in before the format is lost to blue ray.
That's how I see it. It might sound anti HD-DVD, but it's the truth.
Sony of course never invented Blue Ray, however I feel it was right to back it with the majority of companies taking it up. Comany list
It may be a last stand response for HD-DVD. People are not that stupid, Blue Ray in shops looks a lot more promising to customers than HD-DVD because more companies support it.
Good to see this site is still going