Chinese firms get Blu-ray authorisation
Cheaper drives to go
Friday, 23 May 2008, 12:44
ELEVEN CHINESE companies have been given the official blessing of the Blu-ray Disk Association (BDA) to begin the manufacture of BD disks, drives and players starting next year according to China Tech News.
The manufacturers - including TCL, Malata and Desay - have in some cases moved to the BD format from the now deceased HD DVD system.
It has been estimated that kit fitted with BD drives will reach 5.3 million this year and top 11 million by 2009.
How many Chinese factories will be churning out BD-branded kit without the blessing of the organisation remains to be seen but you can be pretty sure that sub-£100 Hi Def disk spinners will be with us sooner rather than later. µ
L'Inq
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Blu-ray wasn't going to grow in the market without major price cuts as a result of Chinese manufacturing.
Although cost comes down. Asus announced new BD PLAYER, for 150$ yesterdays. however, think about it, even if it where free player from Columbia Broadcast Service Who has that much use for Non recordable BD Player?
Each Movie will soon outcost player & thats WRONG.ahso, you'll need about grand in HD display device & you get: comforting delusion that your Prirate movie looked better than Jones'.(From 8 feet). In fact if you gonna record it, you'll also need camera & that negates defination standards entirely,anyway.
drashek
Finally some lower cost BD drives. As tempting as they are at around £150 for a BD-R drive, I'm going to hang on that little bit longer. In the mean time I'm going to get myself one of those XBOX360 HD-DVD drives (they're selling between £15 and £35 now!) and a few cheap HD-DVD movies to enjoy.

Rob