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CMC chairman talks out about Blu-ray manufacturing
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article published on 30 December, 2007
CMC Magnetics chairman Robert Wong recently spoke out about Blu-ray manufacturing and why Taiwan disc makers are being conservative over their deployment in the next-generation optical disc standard.
According to Wong, the format has yet to reach mass penetration because high royalty fees and equipment costs have turned off disc makers.
"Although recent sales of Blu-ray optical drives ... [ read the full article ]
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AfterDawn Addict
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31. December 2007 @ 02:48 |
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"According to Wong, the format has yet to reach mass penetration because high royalty fees and equipment costs have turned off disc makers."
And because sony and others have their hands in it that wont be going away anytime soon.
For the amount of players that BR has sold they have a piss poor market share and in the end the only way to change that is better prices to the consumer and that is somethign BR just can not offer.
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nobrainer
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31. December 2007 @ 06:01 |
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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:
"According to Wong, the format has yet to reach mass penetration because high royalty fees and equipment costs have turned off disc makers."
And because sony and others have their hands in it that wont be going away anytime soon.
For the amount of players that BR has sold they have a piss poor market share and in the end the only way to change that is better prices to the consumer and that is something BR just can not offer.
i know i keep repeating myself but ppl don't care about Hi-Def media, dvd's are cheap, contain the same film and mostly everyone in the developed world has a player.
The other + with dvd is the lack of DRM seems css was smashed long ago, especially the anti consumer BD+ of sony's DRM-Ray.
They cant change the net as file sharing can never be stopped all they can do is DRM all the hardware which is what BD+, AACS, HDMI HDCP, is about blocking all content which is why many DRM-Ray players will not play BD-R media such as Sony's BDP-S1 nor will it play cd-r's. Drm-ray refuses to play media without AACS copy protection and the only REAL way to put AASC on a BD disc is to send it off for mastering, which is not cheap!
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red2tango
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31. December 2007 @ 15:14 |
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cmc is shit anyway,i wouldnt buy blu-ray disks from them ever.only verbatim,sony and taiyo yuden make good quality media.
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pcaddict
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1. January 2008 @ 21:56 |
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Sony's media has varying quality. People buy Sony media mainly for the name rather than the actual media quality. I stick with Verbatim.
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red2tango
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2. January 2008 @ 02:09 |
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Originally posted by pcaddict:
Sony's media has varying quality. People buy Sony media mainly for the name rather than the actual media quality. I stick with Verbatim.
cant go wrong with made in japan sony dvds.especially 8x dvd+R since they're made by taiyo yuden.
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2. January 2008 @ 17:53 |
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According to Wong, the format has yet to reach mass penetration because high royalty fees and equipment costs have turned off disc makers.
This is the case due to the technology not being mainstream yet and this is because the prices are up. Wait till the market gets soo many of these new drives both blu-ray and hd dvd and then you will see everything become cheap as chips.
However coming from cmag corporation i would not touch their CD/DVD/HD DVD they do not make good products for anything,
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