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redspear on 03 July 2007
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davygee said:
redspear said:

The 125 dollar cost is for the WHOLE blue Ray Drive. The cost reduction is significant though since the Diode went from around 65 or so to 8 dollars.

Only europe removed the EE as far as I know and I haven't heard about the 32 Megs of RAM. The Cell i the PS3 as far as I know is still only 90mm.


I seriously doubt the cost of the Whole BluRay Drive was $125...seeing as BluRay drives were costing $1000 to the general public.

I thought it was common knowledge that the PS3 would have been at least $300 less to produce if it didn't incorporate a BluRay Drive in it.


There is more to a player than just the drive. There are decoder chips and there are even CPUs in all players.  Plus those systems were built for profit. Blue laser devices have to have finer calibration they can not shake as much the disc can not able as much and the players require more memory for buffers than DVDs. there are more filters and decoders for different codecs both auido and video and when the PS3 came out you could get a Blu ray player for 800 if you shopped enough.