Blu-ray Prices to Come Down

The price of Blu-ray discs will be coming down. Electronista reported earlier today that Panasonic, Philips, and Sony have agreed to form a single licensing firm for the discs. By combining all the required licenses for Blu-ray, DVD, and CD in one place, the new project, once operational, will allow companies to visit one place to acquire rights to Blu-ray burners, discs, and players, which should result in a drop of license prices. This is a result of a few market conditions. To begin with, you have the economy: Toilet. And then you have the numbers relating to DVD sales versus Blu-ray sales, and while the new technology is slowly gaining ground, that's just it. It's slowly gaining ground.The licensing, believe it or not, is a huge financial concern for manufactures and patent holders. Not too many years ago, a company wanting to make a standard DVD player would have to pay a $15 license for each unit. That's before anything actually gets made. The one-stop-shop approach, according to the report, would mean that PhilSonySonic would sell Blu-ray read-only discs for 11 cents. It's a penny more for writable discs and 15 cents for rewritables. And once that happens - and when the licenses for using the read-only and writable machines drop, as well - then the prices of commercial Blu-Ray players and discs will sink sooner than later. Getting back to the market conditions, if you could pay a little less to get better quality, you would. So, when this takes effect, you won't be paying $200 or more for a player and $40 or thereabouts for a Blu-ray movie, although I doubt we'll see a similar 40% drop on the finished products.

Comments

[Will]

Interesting stuff. Pretty soon all you Blu-Ray elitists will be joined by plebians like me! Yay!

[Guitar]

very interesting news. I used only DVD and CD. I will try this Blu-ray.
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