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	Blu-ray is dead?

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10-29-2008 8:27 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7b955710-e78d-4c41-8180-2ce56c68b9b0/41A359C6-0077-4EF9-8A1D-BD046416ECBB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=365" href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=365" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.zdnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=365"><P>Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=365"><UL>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Recordable discs don’t play reliably across the range of Blu-ray players - so you can’t do low-volume runs yourself.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Service bureau reproduction runs $20 per single layer disc in quantities of 300 or less.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Hollywood style printed/replicated Blu-ray discs are considerably cheaper once you reach the thousand unit quantity: just $3.50 per disc.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">High-quality authoring programs like Sony Blu-print or Sonic Solutions Scenarist cost $40,000.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The Advanced Access Content System - the already hacked DRM - has a one-time fee of $3000 plus a per project cost of almost $1600 plus $.04 per disk. And who defines “project?”</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> Then the Blu-ray disc Association charges another $3000 annually to use their very exclusive - on 4% of all video disks! - logo.</LI>
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