But not the disks
Contract prices for Blu-Ray machines are falling as the
industry misses the point about what is putting on the brakes for the
technology.
Digitimes reports that Contract-manufacturing quotes for PC-use Blu-ray Disk drives have
dropped to $70-80. This is still much higher than the $20 for DVD drives, but
is falling fast. However makers of Blu-ray machines are not finding that
the gear is shifting at anywhere near the high numbers required for the
technology to take off.
This is because the Blu-ray disks are far too expensive
for consumers to want them. Analysts think that the price would have to drop to about
that of a DVD disk before anyone would look twice at them.
However there is a marked reluctance for the likes of
Sony to drop the price of disks.
