Cost of UHD Blu Ray - Is MS subsidizing Xbone S, or is Sony just milking it?

[Guitarguy]

Pemalite said:

mutantsushi said:

Right, that's why I've written on production costs vs. market costs where perceived premiums can apply.
If you have better source of pricing (for BDXL vs. non-BDXL), I'd love to hear it, that's exactly why I created this thread.

Hope this is the information you need: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18728620

There are plenty of other drives that only need the same.
LG BH16NS50, BH16NS55, 2nd gen BH/WH14NS40.

Basically majority of drives for the last 12+ months have supported BDXL, but you need more than just BDXL Blu-ray support to playback 4k Blu Rays.
You need various DRM schemes like AACS Legacy+Online for both hardware and software, which I would assume the consoles can side step anyway.

Many 2015 (Even a few 2013 drives) Fuji drives also only require a Firmware update to support Version 2 format disks and/or AACS 2 as per the whitepaper:
ftp://ftp.seagate.com/sff/INF-8090.PDF

You seem very knowledgable on technology in general. Is there any reason you can see why Sony cannot update the blu ray drive to UHD via firmware update??