Pioneer hits China with $300 BDC-S02 Blu-ray drive

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SumYungGai @ Apr 18th 2007 5:48PM

Who cares how much the burner costs - its all about the BLANK MEDIA prices as the dictator for mass adoption.. and currently HD-DVD blanks are cheaper and will continue to be due to more cost-effective manufacturing process.

Take THAT sony and your viral BluRay marketing efforts.

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cduran01 @ Apr 18th 2007 6:02PM

You need to look at the price per GB. Just did a quick search for blank media, this is what I found: Both Memorex brands both write once disks, HD-DVD blanks are $19.99 (on sale) and Blu-ray blanks are $31.50 regular price (on sale for $18.99.

The price per GB of the HD-DVD blanks is $1.33 while the Blu-ray (single layer) comes in at $1.26 per GB (at the regular price) and $0.76 per GB at the sale price.

BTW, these are Amazon prices, you can do the search yourself. Looks to me that Blu-ray is beating HD DVD in cost per GB on the blank media.

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