larry said:
why do you have to refute every statement without knowing facts. just google for the japanese article that stated that the P price of BD drive would match that of DVD by june. the BD drive is being mass produced in large quantities . The price has come down perhaps to something around 30$ by now. dont argue unnecessarily. google for the links to the article.
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Wouldn't it be better if you provided the links so we can see what you see? Just a thought!
Anyhow, I don't think a BD drive is around $30 yet, mainly because internal DVD players for the PC are still hovering around the US$20 mark, and that is with an average 3.5% profit (margins are extremely tight with PC components and peripherals; in fact, that 0.5% I tacked on was being generous), yet I don't see Blu-Ray drives (or HD-DVD drives, for that matter) approaching that market price anytime soon (admittedly, they are writables but still the cheapest one I found on pricegrabber.com was around US$450).
If it was really that cheap and if Sony's PS3 is just a trojan horse for Blu-Ray adoption, they could do the easiest thing: Offer the drives at US$30+3.5% profit margin and that would singlehandedly destroy the DVD in no time. I'd be the first in line! Everyone would jump on the Blu-Ray bandwagon. There really would be no reason not to, as prices no longer command a premium over DVD players.
However, chances are it still costs much more than just 30 greenbacks to make, witnessed by their still-high prices.
