Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 23rd Feb 2008 11:29 UTC
The time may come where you will have to burn both a Blu-Ray disc for your family, and an HD-DVD disc for your boss who got hurried out and bought that HD-DVD player just so he can show off to all of you who waited for the format war outcome. Besides, while the HD format war is over, there are still over 1.3 million HD-DVD devices out there. I have modified some HD authoring methods found on the net in a way that 80% of the work to be done is the same for both formats, and with the rest 20% of the work only taking an additional 10 minutes for each format to be muxed and burned. Blu-Ray method is here, and the HD-DVD method is here (methods are identical up to step #7). Not only that, but you won't even need an HD burner, as these methods exercise plain DVD-R discs and they are using freeware tools.
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Which brightly illustrates the problem with Sony et al owning the media format and the player technology. They're going to keep recordable media prices high, in order to take a bite out of the inevitable piracy which they know will emerge. BR discs cost about $1.20 per gig. At those prices, everyone would probably be better off storing their HD content on magnetic media rather than BR discs. 1 terabyte of storage costs a little over $200 now. That's $0.20 per gig. Clearly, unless Sony gets realistic about the price of media, people will start getting their HD content delivered online, directly to hard drives, rather than invest in overpriced BR-R discs. "
Have you considered that maybe they just don't want to sell those dics on loss. Replicating a BR discs costs at least $5 in large batches and doing recordable discs is much more expensive and batches smaller. The license fees for writable BR's aren't very high so the prices will come down once there is enough buyers and manufacturers doing those.
By the way, if you want to do some BR discs, Sony isn't the place to go. MPEG LA handles all licensing on non-discrimanatory basis.
Edited 2008-02-23 19:11 UTC