What? The pressing costs are very similar. But the pressing costs aren't the only factor. Making both formats means that you have to author two discs and make pressing blanks for two discs. The authoring systems and the knowledge on how to do it is not cheap. And it's not about the titles that can sell 100k-200k copies, the back catalog titles won't sell for nearly that many. Very few titles can sell that many at the moment.
Only the new catalog titles seem to justify release, the cost of two HD formats is hurting the less popular, old catalog titles since the HD market is split.
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What? The pressing costs are very similar. But the pressing costs aren't the only factor. Making both formats means that you have to author two discs and make pressing blanks for two discs. The authoring systems and the knowledge on how to do it is not cheap. And it's not about the titles that can sell 100k-200k copies, the back catalog titles won't sell for nearly that many. Very few titles can sell that many at the moment.
Only the new catalog titles seem to justify release, the cost of two HD formats is hurting the less popular, old catalog titles since the HD market is split.