HD-DVD Soon to die, toshiba to quit backing it.

[Faun]

lol... i wish things could get more better

 

[W i d e S c r e e N]

Blu-ray victory means royalties, royalties, royalties

Posted by Michael Kanellos | 72 comments
Forget about customer satisfaction or superiority of image quality. The real issue in the war between Blu-ray and HD DVD was about royalties.
With the competition gone, the Blu-ray consortium now has the opportunity to persuade PC makers and consumer electronics makers to adopt Blu-ray drives as their optical drives of choice. It will also get studios and disc makers to deliver Blu-ray discs to consumers. And every time one of those drives or discs leaves a factory, the Blu-ray Disc Association will get a royalty.

The numbers add up quickly. Look at DVD, for example. To make a DVD player legally, manufacturers recently had to pay around $4 per player or drive, according to some estimates. A few years ago, those fees were around $15 to $20. Fees get paid every time a DVD drive gets included in a PC. Nearly every PC in the world has a DVD drive these days and roughly 250 million PCs get shipped every year. Companies that legally make DVD discs also pay fees. The DVD6C licensing group dropped the per disc fee in January to 4 cents per disc. Years ago, it was 7.5 cents per disc. Then there are verification fees.

*www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9874317-7.html?tag=nefd.lede

 

[naveen_reloaded]

^^^ well that is why sony has been so kken to makesure that technoligy like bluray is top.. coz it can win this royality... war..

 

[W i d e S c r e e N]

amazon is taking pre-orders of recent hindi "movies"

om shanti om (no info abt relse)
*www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00124ONSS

saawariya
*www.amazon.com/Saawariya-Blu-ray-Z...ef=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1203713864&sr=1-2

Saawariya [Blu-ray] (2007)
Price: $26.95
Availability: This title will be released on March 11, 2008. Pre-order now! Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

 

[naveen_reloaded]

no way i am gona get these two movies..

wht other films are avail in bluray???

english list please ??

 

[faraaz]

*www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9874317-7.html?tag=nefd.lede

Its business...not charity. Things will settle down in the market soon and you'll be getting Blu Ray burners for dirt cheap, just like everything else...

 

[W i d e S c r e e N]

LIST of HD-DVD titles and BlueRay is moved. Plz visit the next page of this thread for a compressed version.

 

[faraaz]

Couldnt you have pasted a link instead of the whole text? This is irritating...

 

[nvidia]

Wow! Thats a huge list!

 

[W i d e S c r e e N]

@faraaz he wanted a list

 

[krazzy]

All the HD DVD titles will soon be there on Blu ray, won't they?

 

[faraaz]

@faraaz he wanted a list

<a href> tags are your friend!

 

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

<a href> tags are your friend!

actually

 

[W i d e S c r e e N]

ok,
after he's done with it ill delete the post.

 

[faraaz]

actually[/QUOTE] As long as the message comes across...

 

[goobimama]

amazon is taking pre-orders of recent hindi "movies"

om shanti om (no info abt relse)
*www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00124ONSS

saawariya
*www.amazon.com/Saawariya-Blu-ray-Z...ef=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1203713864&sr=1-2

Wow! I didn't see this post. I hope there is some good person who will buy it for me . I guess I will scrap my plans of buying the DVD.

 

[mehaman]

blu-ray when will it be affordable(esp blu-ray drives )

 

[pushkaraj]

So finally we have one surviving standard : BLURAY!
Great

Anyone knows what is the current price of Bluray drive and bluray discs?

 

[mehaman]

^tereku khar bechna padega!

 

[W i d e S c r e e N]

@faraaz,

what price will a BR burner come to till 2010?


i think it currently costs around 35,000 (estimte)

@naveen_reloaded,
copy the list and post a reply