Next time I buy half a DVD, I'll be sure to factor in the "per GB" cost of disc production.
Until that time, I'll just stick to "cost per disc".
I mean, seriously. C'mon now.
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so the dual layered Blu-ray disc would be like 2.15? thats cheap as heck for 50GB
| ssj12 said: so the dual layered Blu-ray disc would be like 2.15? thats cheap as heck for 50GB |
too bad for consumers like us, we'll never see that price anytime soon
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| ssj12 said: so the dual layered Blu-ray disc would be like 2.15? thats cheap as heck for 50GB |
Hard to tell. Things don't necessarily scale in convenient ratios like that. It could be more (likely) or it could be less (unlikely, or the point of having a 25GB disc in the first place would become moot).
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akuma587 said:
Several people in the Paramount/Dreamworks thread said that this was a factor in their switch. I figured since this information was very relevant that other people should see it. Thanks for the compliment, I also liked the article quite a bit. It definitely stuck in my memory, so luckily it didn't take long to retrieve it. |
Ah, good to know. Thanks again for the info Akuma!
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| shams said: Guys - for a small manufacturing run, a 30c saving per disk is HEAPS! Almost 20%... And HD-DVD players are much cheaper - not so much the discs. Makes it easier for consumers to upgrade as part of an impulse purchase. The other factor that I thought was significant... HD-DVD owners have a higher attach rate (buy more movies per owner). This is probably only due to PS3 sales though - a lot of people buy a PS3 and never use the BluRay player. |
Unfortunately for HD-DVD, almost no other manufacturer will build a player because Toshiba undercuts them on price with the $299 A2. That is why almost every major hardware manufacturer, including some of the cheap Chinese ones, are onboard with Blu-Ray players, not HD-DVD.
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This is from an Associated Press article I just read through the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Dueling-DVD-Formats.html
"Blu-ray discs can hold more data -- 50 gigabytes compared with HD DVD's 30 GB -- but the technology requires new manufacturing techniques and factories, boosting initial costs.
HD DVDs, on the other hand, are essentially DVDs on steroids, meaning movie studios can turn to existing assembly lines to produce them in mass."
If that is true, it looks to be an added benefit of long-term cost reduction if HD DVD wins out. Less infrastructure and R+D costs to refine the disc replication process.
good info
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| fuhraud said: This is from an Associated Press article I just read through the NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Dueling-DVD-Formats.html "Blu-ray discs can hold more data -- 50 gigabytes compared with HD DVD's 30 GB -- but the technology requires new manufacturing techniques and factories, boosting initial costs. HD DVDs, on the other hand, are essentially DVDs on steroids, meaning movie studios can turn to existing assembly lines to produce them in mass." If that is true, it looks to be an added benefit of long-term cost reduction if HD DVD wins out. Less infrastructure and R+D costs to refine the disc replication process. |
This is one factor I read about quite some time back that hasn't been touched on recently. If current DVD lines can be retrofitted to transform into an HD-DVD line, the cost savings could be huge.
As I've said all along, time will tell how this all will work out and the war is far from over, in fact it has hardly even started.
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Um, $.14 PER disc is a CONSIDERABLE difference when you're making MILLIONS of discs!
10 million discs = 1.4 million of what would be pure profit LOST.
Wal-Mart became the most successful business in America not by counting dollars, but by counting pennies, billions, and billions of pennies. These costs add up my friends.
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