For those worried about Warner Bros. letting their license expire... read on

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Originally Posted by Jimbo976

Anyone see this?

http://www.tvsnob.com/archives/014477.php

2. Cost of Manufacturing - Blu-Ray yields are bad. Apparently 2 or 3 of 10 are good. The cost per disk is also high. Blu-Ray is over 5.00 per disk vs 1.00 to 1.50 for HD-DVD.

Untrue. Home Media Magazine reports that the difference in cost is about $.10-.15 per disc, and is even closer if it's a hybrid disc.

6. WB has already said that Home Players sales are the sales that REALLY matter and that PS3 title sales cannot be predicted because you do not know how many PS3 owners will buy movies. When someone purchases an Toshiba HD-DVD or 360 HD-DVD Player you know those consumers WILL buy movies or they would NOT have made the purchase at all. The PS3 is a game machine first then Blu-Ray Player second. For Blu-Ray to make a huge dent with PS3 consumers would need to purchase more than one (PS3) or you will have people fighting over watching movies or playing games (in many households, not all). Nielson and other stat trackers do not count the PS3 as part of the Home Player sales.

However, Nielsen does have a survey showing that 30% of PS3 owners do use it for Blu-Ray playback. Unfortunately, there aren't numbers for how many actually bought it strictly because it was the best (and cheapest) Blu-Ray player on the market.