Cost of Blu-ray Players to Hit $50 in 2010
Tawainese manufacturers of optical disc drives say that the cost of production for a Blu-ray disc player is set to fall to $50 in the next year.
Digitimes reports, citing industry sources, that the current production cost for Blu-ray players is around $100, with pick-up heads and chipsets accounting for 50 percent and 25 percent respectively. However, the publication says that in response to Sears selling a refurbished Blu-ray player (the Magnavox RNB500MG9) for just $99.99, optical disc drive manufacturers expect the cost to be half that come 2010.
Just last week a Curtis Mathes-branded BD player hit Meijer online at $99.99 as a Father's Day special. Predictably, the player sold out pretty quickly. That said, it looks like we’re now seeing the beginning of low-cost players that could give the Blu-ray format the boost that it needs.
Judging from reader feedback on last week’s piece, it seems consumers would rather have cheaper Blu-ray discs than cheaper players. Is this the reason you haven’t made the switch yet? Let us know!
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yep most dvd's less than £10-15 in the UK, bluray £15-25, the main reason i havnt changed over
Like VHS -> DVD it won't be long before Blu Ray takes over.
But, it may be the last major form of disk based storage for films if the net has anything to say about it. At least, in areas with decent high-speed broadband penetration.
dvd-r costs about 11p, bd-r costs 4 quid, cost per gigabyte for dvd is 2.44p and for bluray is 16p. thats a large difference
I agree with Clintonio, blu-ray and the rumored red-ray, will be the last of its kind for movies. Not to say we will not have discs for storage, but as a movie medium...? what do the rest of you think?
blurry players will soon be cheaper than a blurry disc. It'd be great if you could get films bundled with these players - buy a new player every couple of weeks and throw your current one away - or sell it on ebay for a quid.
i'm not getting one simply because i haven't burnt any kind of optical disc in nearly 2 years, for me it's all hard storage - sd cards, compact flash (for most big lcd/plasma tvs) and streaming. Discs are dead to me.
I have a blu-ray but rarely buy blu-ray discs because of the price differential, and don't buy DVDs because I could get a higher quality blu-ray version. Therefore I end up buying nothing and saving money.