PC Vendors Asking For Reductions In ODM/OEM Quotes For Blu-ray Drives
PC vendors including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Dell, Acer and Asustek Computer want a considerably large reduction in ODM/OEM prices of Blu-ray Disc (BD) Combo and BD-ROM drives, but leading ODM/OEM makers are unwilling to lower current quotes, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Among the major BD drive ODM/OEM makers, Pioneer focuses on BD Combo drives and Taiwan-based Lite-On IT concentrates on BD-ROM drives.
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What can you do... manufacturers have the right to set their price.
Now that BluRay manufacturers have a single "winning" HD standard they can either work with the marketplace or else they can watch their format die as users turn to online and digital distribution.
Consumers have the right to not buy them.
Sony wants to milk off the royalty from the bd-dvd manufacturers and since they have invested millions (or even billions) shoving this standard to our faces. Meanwhile, this BD-rom will probably die because people figure out that you can store stuff in usb drives and hard drives on mp4 format.
Yeah, I for one will never buy a BD drive until it's:
1) Less than $150 AU
2) Fully Recordable & reliable
3) Recordable media price is less than $4 AU for 25GB blank
I'm using USB sticks for transient storage & ESata/USB2 HDD's for more permanent storage... HDD is cheap & FAST & more reliable!!!
If they don't drop the price soon, people may just skip the whole debacle.