While we continue to wait for the first movie release on dual-layer 50GB Blu-ray discs, Sony has announced they are now shipping 50GB BD-R recordable media for use with Blu-ray burners. The 2x media uses their AccuCORE technology to protect it from scratches or warping, and carries a suggested retail price of $48 per disc. This is a win for
Blu-ray and its supporters as they're finally delivering on the extra capacity they've promised and it is doubtful HD DVD will ever be able to match --
Microsoft's Amir M. has stated he doesn't expect triple layer HD DVD to be widely adopted -- but due to manufacturing differences between the BD-Rs and commercial Blu-ray discs, we're still left wondering when our MPEG-2 Blu-ray movies will have some room to breathe. One thing is for sure, at
$750 for the drive,
$50,000 for the software and nearly fifty bucks per single disc this is not for the thrifty.
[Thanks, plaque monster]
posted Aug 16th 2006 9:44AM
Äntligen!
Oh sorry...
Finally!
The $50,000 authoring program is for the studios and DVD production companies!! Man - the next version of DVD Studio Pro as well as future version of iDVD will have authoring support for Bluray.
Expensive, expensive, at the other place it was cheaper.
Old news but great, there are still people who think those 15GB HD DVD are huge :)
And TDK is working on 100GB disc ;)
$48? 1g/1$...
whats the point then?
i'll pass
what's the price for those recently released blank HD DVD from Memorex?
Very expensive ...