Blue-Ray Burners for a Grand. Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD
Meritline.com - Blue-Ray Burners and Discs
Blu-Ray burners for a grand! Single-layer discs running on a unit price of $20-25 per piece. I might be getting one in a year or two when the drive is $250 or less and the media is $2 or less.
I think PCs and PlayStations will adopt blue-ray while hollywood will end up on HD-DVD. I can see an anti-piracy motive on this. Casual pirates won’t be willing to pay the premium price dual-drives or hybrid drives (unless the hybrids become cheap). Only geeks and serious movie watchers would do such a thing. Cuts the ripping population down to a quarter (post-crack-mainstreaming). HDDVD for the TV and BluRay for the PC would be mainstream until the hybrid drives get cheap enough.. Don’t expect me to buy that many HDTV movies if they do this though. Only LOTR, Harry Potter and Star Wars. Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD for me? I would choose BlueRay. Just need a little more patience for the prices to drop.
Here are some links to articles on HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray. It appears that Toshiba is selling its HD-DVD player at a loss, banking on its royalties and license fees from clones and maybe the discs too. If the discs have to pay royalties, that may not be good for HD-DVD, unless its the same for blu-ray also (which I would hate). It is not unusual to undercut a product like that. Many game consoles are sold under-cost to bank on game royalties.
