Kenshin, thanks for sharing this with us.
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Originally Posted by shimman according to the comments on that korean site, it seems like the bd disk is around 30usd/disk...not sure but that is probably for the bd-re single layer; will skip bd until things settle down especially the disk price. for 30usd/disk is not acceptable. for that price i would get hdd; |
Indeed the price sounds to be very high, but when we consider the price per GB then it doesn't look that expensive to me.
US $30 per 25GB BD-R(E) = US $1.2/GB
US $8 per 8.5GB DVD+R9 = US $0.94/GB
US $0.8 per HQ DVD+R 4.7 = US $0.17/GB
As you see, the price per GB is for BD not much higher than the price per GB for a DVD+R DL and there is no real massproduction for BD at the moment. I guess that the price per GB will drop far below the DVD9 prices.
Ok, the price per GB is 6 times higer than for a high quality DVD+/-R but we must also look onto the amount of discs which are sold per year.
so I don't think that the prices are that high.
P.S. shouldn't this thread be moved to the BD forum?