Saturday, April 8, 2006
HD DVD and Blu-ray Drives Cost Over $400 to Build
Posted by Damion Chaplin in "NEWS" @ 02:00 PM
"Research firm In-Stat has released a report that looks at the potential market for the two battling next-generation optical formats: Blu-ray and HD DVD. The report starts off by analyzing a bill of materials for "blue laser players" and came up with a round figure of about US$400. This includes not only the hardware, but royalty licenses for the various codecs included in the players."
Obviously, this price will come down over time as market demand grows and more factories move over to blue-laser manufacturing, but I shudder to think what this means for the introductory price of the PS3...
Obviously, this price will come down over time as market demand grows and more factories move over to blue-laser manufacturing, but I shudder to think what this means for the introductory price of the PS3...
