“In all the cases that I have checked, Blue Ray is equally priced or less expensive than HD-DVD. Where is everyone shopping for their HD-DVD movies?”
The actual physical discs for either formats is probably a few dollars to make. Before the formats released, it was said that the cost of the machine line to produce those discs might differ since HDDVD is suppose to use DVD production lines (just modified) while Blu ray is suppose to require it’s own new line (higher costs). One of two things could be happening to make the two prices relatively close. Either Blu ray has massively improved the production to where they’re identical to those of HD DVD, or the studios are eating the cost (profit margin) to remain competitive with HD DVD in the software field.
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“In all the cases that I have checked, Blue Ray is equally priced or less expensive than HD-DVD. Where is everyone shopping for their HD-DVD movies?”
The actual physical discs for either formats is probably a few dollars to make. Before the formats released, it was said that the cost of the machine line to produce those discs might differ since HDDVD is suppose to use DVD production lines (just modified) while Blu ray is suppose to require it’s own new line (higher costs). One of two things could be happening to make the two prices relatively close. Either Blu ray has massively improved the production to where they’re identical to those of HD DVD, or the studios are eating the cost (profit margin) to remain competitive with HD DVD in the software field.