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Posted by Allan on 09/07/05 02:45
Latest News Blu-Ray drives for the Playstation 3 will cost Sony a
small fortune. It turns out that at the release of the console in the
first half of 2006, Sony will have to pay more than $100 (£54) per
drive it builds in Playstation 3.
This is a lot of money, because even in retail you can buy a DVD +RW
drive for less than $50 now. This means that Microsoft can get it much
cheaper than $50 (£27), maybe even half that price, due to the
enormous quantity it needs to buy for millions of XboX 360 consoles.
Blu Ray marchitecture looks great as its backward compatible with DVDs
and CDs, and you can store 25GB per layer on the Blu Ray media. This
will provide you with an amazing 50GB for two layer drives at some
point in the future.
Nevertheless, it's a very expensive step that Sony is willing to take
as it will increase cost of Playstation 3 unit dramatically. Sony said
Playstation 3 is going the be expensive and this is one of the reasons
why.
Microsoft is playing a safe game here, it will launch with DVD+RW but
in some point in the future might release a new Xbox 360 version with
HD-DVD or a Blu Ray drive. We dont expect that this will happen
anytime soon, but we are sure it will happen at some point in the next
few years.
At least Sony will push the mass availability of Blu Ray drives and
medias as it plans to ship hundredes of thousands of consoles in 2006.
http://webplus.dvd-recordable.org/Article2179.phtml
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