Blu-ray discs cheap to make now

[DanoruX]

From: http://news.softpedia.com/news/DVD-W...Ray-2997.shtml

It looks like the war of DVD formats is far from over. Even though, earlier this week, Toshiba's HD-DVD seemed to have a slight advantage over Blu-Ray, things are constantly changing, and fast, for that matter.

Toshiba’s main point against the rivals from Sony was the relatively low manufacturing cost for HD-DVD discs, which can be produced using the currently installed technological lines.

Today, however,
Pioneer and Mitsubishi have made an announcement that shatters this Toshiba's advantage. Thus, the two manufacturers have managed to reduce the manufacturing costs for the BD-R (Blue-Ray Recordable) discs to 11% of the initial value, by using the spin coating technology, already employed on a large scale in the production of DVD-R.

Taking into consideration Pioneer's statements, according to which the changes to the current technological lines, in order to manufacture Blu-Rays, can be done with minimum expenses, and also seeing that the prototype released today will have a capacity of 25 GB, it looks like Sony's got the advantage now.

This could be the first nail in the HD-DVD coffin, considering that its only great advantage has just been blown up, and as we pointed out in our previous articles, the Blu-Ray discs were already backed by most of the PC manufacturers. And seeing that the Blu-Ray technology will also be implemented in the Sony Playstation 3, the future of Toshiba’s format seems very gloomy right now.

Owned.

[thunderhawk]

hehehe, Blu-ray wins again 8)

[zombie]

This could be the first nail in the HD-DVD coffin, considering that its only great advantage has just been blown up, and as we pointed out in our previous articles, the Blu-Ray discs were already backed by most of the PC manufacturers. And seeing that the Blu-Ray technology will also be implemented in the Sony Playstation 3, the future of Toshiba’s format seems very gloomy right now.

Yeah! Great article. 8)

[john_1958]

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. is set to release new blu-ray DVD drives for personal computers for 2006

and blu-ray has its own BD-r discs

[th3archiv3]

hd dvd needs to quit and come over to the blu-ray side and stop having war blu ray is winner here....... hd-dvd is dead

[Hayden]

This sucks hard! I built up a collection of 80 DVDs, now everyone is switching to BDs. :shock: Damn. :?

[th3archiv3]

u can still watch dvds on bd players so it doesnt matter.

[zombie]

Originally Posted by th3archiv3

HOW OLD ARE YOU?!?!?! dont even talk here anymore because u are annoying! u can still watch dvds on bd players so it doesnt matter.

Let's be a little nicer okay. We all feel frustrated to some degree that we've spent our hard earned money building a DVD collection only to have a new format take over only a few years later. But alas you are correct, our DVD collections are not a total loss. DVDs will play on all Blu-ray players not to mention that regular DVD players aren't going away anytime soon.

[georgir]

another thing... Hayden will be able to record all his 80 dvds on just 4 bluray discs when the technology goes up to 8 layers maybe even less, as a lot of printed dvds dont make use of the full capacity

i dont see how that can be bad.