BluRay Discs EXPENSIVE Blanks!

jrazz wrote on 3/17/2006, 8:50 AM

$20, $25, $48, $60 respectively. I guess they are charging per gig on the disc? One can only hope that the cost will go down when the newness wears off.
HDDVD player (release date April) is around 500 bucks while the BluRay Player (release date July) is around 1,000.

Here is the article.

j razz

Comments

SimonW wrote on 3/17/2006, 9:21 AM

Although the article gets it wrong about HDMI since Sony have announced that high def through component will be allowed with BR players. That means that I will be getting a BR player and not HD DVD.

Simon

Laurence wrote on 3/17/2006, 8:58 PM

My understanding is that BR players will output video through component outputs, but that it will be downconverted to SD on anything that is copywrited, not that this makes any sense. Maybe I just got it wrong. I sure hope so!

Laurence wrote on 3/17/2006, 9:19 PM

Here are two links talking about the potential for downrezzed video only for component output on BlueRay and HD-DVD:

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/early_hdtv_adopters_screwed_by_hddisc_rules.html#more

http://www.cnet.com/4831-11405_1-6411878.html

SimonW wrote on 3/18/2006, 3:39 AM

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=446964&Replies=2

DGates wrote on 3/18/2006, 4:41 AM

The prices are about what I'd expect them to be.

I don't know why folks expect new technology to be the same price as old technology.

If and when Blu-Ray and HD-DVD get going, it will be a vast improvement over the current DVD standard. I'd expect those blank media prices to drop at least 50% after 12 months.

Bob Greaves wrote on 3/18/2006, 5:14 AM

I wait for the "gotta have one" people to settle the market before I even think about getting in.