Blu Ray lawan. HD DVD Duplication

DVD salinan adalah topik yang dibakar ke dalam pikiran konsumen. Masih mengapa melakukan baru Blu Ray cakra meminta begitu banyak lebih dari DVD tradisional, atau malah HD DVD? Apakah ada bagian sebesar itu dari perbedaan? Sedangkan $40 mungkin nampaknya seperti banyak untuk membayar mahal untuk film, anda tidak akan berkeberatan membayar ekstra untuk cakra anda kalau anda melihat berapa banyak itu berharga untuk berdiri di rumah!

Apakah anda pernah membeli sesuatu di toko dan lalu ditanya tentang sendiri, "saya hanya membayar $40 untuk ini tetapi mungkin hanya berharga 40 sen dalam bentuk bahan untuk membuat?" Adalah agak naluri alami, khususnya bagi siapa saja yang disisipkan eceran, untuk menilai nilai di kepala mereka. Oleh karena itu, kalau melihat-lihat seleksi baru Blu Ray hak, sesuatu secara alami akan bertanya-tanya, "Mengapa saya bisa mendapat DVD di Wal-Mart untuk $10, tetapi cakra baru ini sedang dijual eceran seharga $40?" Apakah anda membayar ekstra untuk roman interaktif dan jam tambahan video, atau apakah hanya adalah itu lebih banyak lagi mahal untuk membakar definisi tinggi? Di intisari, lebih mahal di seluruh, khususnya jika anda di perusahaan HD DVD salinan.

Mengingat hari-hari kalau anda bisa membeli pelita pembakar salinan DVD untuk di bawah $200, mendapat 100-banyak DVD-R 's untuk $22 dan apakah film penuh meniru pada hanya empat puluh menit? Yang itu hari-hari! Masih dengan munculnya Blu Ray teknologi cakra, industri film jadi semakin mahal bagi konsumen dan mungkin menjadi pemimpin industri benjolan kecepatan saja perlu bertahan terhadap pembangkitan mendownload hanya sedikit tahun lebih panjang.

Pengertian & Pemecahan penelitian kukuh karena Home Media Magazine sudah mengumumkan mereka akan menginvestasikan $250 juta lagi, memasang 80 batas produksi baru, untuk mendapat permintaan konsumen untuk baru Blu Ray film cakra dan PS3 permainan. Disamping kode rahasia AACS, menguasai, DVD mengarang, replication dan membungkus biaya, satu garis 50 GB Blu Ray cakra bisa berharga sampai $2,7 juta untuk menghasilkan. Untuk pusat salinan DVD mandiri yang kecil, rintangan keuangan bisa menantang. Tetapi, kalau dihadapi dengan melakukan atau meninggal, banyak harapan untuk menjaga perusahaan mereka agar tetap hidup.

According to optical disc industry officials, the cost of DVD duplication for a Blu Ray disc is quite high. A single layer HD DVD, with the capacity or 15GB, costs $1.15 to manufacture. A 25 GB Blu Ray disc costs $1.30, whereas your standard Dual Layer DVD would cost $0.50. This of course is all assuming that you're buying 25,000 discs at a shot. Across town, at another Blu Ray DVD authoring plant, single-layer Blu Ray discs are going for $1.35 - $1.45, while the 50 GB dual-layer Blu Rays are going for $2.15 - $2.25! If you're doing the math, that's roughly 45 cents per GB. Also, don't forget there's a setup cost that could be as much as $5,000 per line.

You may be wondering, "Well, what if I wanted less than 25,000 or more than 25,000? "If you need, say, 5,000 (50 GB) Blu Ray discs, then you're looking at a cost of approximately $12,250. For a 10,000 disc unit run, you're looking at $13,000 for your Blu Ray player and $14,500 if you want an interactive disc for your computer. While DVD duplication for Blu Rays seems more expensive than the now-extinct HD DVD, the numbers are deceiving. You get more giga-bytes with a Blu Ray disc, so you're actually getting more for your money.

Despite the high costs of Blu Ray-DVD duplication, there may be some hope on the horizon for consumers who just want to do their own Blu Ray DVD authoring at home. Pioneer and Mitsubishi Chemical Media have opted to create a new disc using an "organic dye recording layer, which is sometimes referred to as "LTH format," that will reduce material costs and also allow existing CD-R and DVD-R manufacturers to upgrade their facilities to BD-R, using modified equipment, rather than a whole new line. However, consumers will need a firmware update to be able to play LTH format in their Blu Ray Disc players. Mitsubishi and Pioneer said they hope their BD25SL BD-R discs and LTH BD burners will be on the market this spring. Additionally, they are pioneering a metal nitride recording layer that will improve burn speed from 2x to 4x or 6x.

You may have been using a DVD duplication burner for many years now. Many consumers like burning back-up discs for their collection or (illegally) sharing their movies with friends and family. There is also a chance you'll want to burn home movies onto a BR-DVD to watch on TV, and if you're an amateur filmmaker or musician, then there are obvious benefits to being able to record in the new Blu Ray format. For a regular computer, Pioneer has a line of relatively inexpensive bare bones (single layer) Blu Ray burners for $155 - $179. Of course, the drives for laptops are slightly more expensive and must be bought internally at the time of purchase. The ranges go up to $660 for LaCie and $360 for the more futuristic-looking Lite-On. Most burners will also burn CDs and regular DVDs. Then, of course, there are the brand new double layer burners retailing currently at $500 that allow copy protection and the ability to burn to 50 GB. This is only the beginning of consumer costs, though, because you haven't eve n gotten into BD-R disc costs yet.

As you know, DVD duplication is no easy task. It's not like burning a CD, where you can just easily rip it onto your computer in five or ten minutes. Instead, you'll need special software to break through copyright barriers and you'll have to wait much longer for the information to copy. Software company "SlySoft" claims to have AnyDVD HD software that can break Blu Ray's BD+ protection to make copies of commercially released Blu Ray titles. The large film studios were originally enticed by Sony's BD+ copy protection, which they felt was far superior to Toshiba/Microsoft's HD DVD. SlySoft promises that they'll be continually trying to keep up with the latest innovations that Sony can come up with and that they're currently offering the ability to bypass the beginning warnings, age restrictions and limitations on some BR discs.

Sure, you can purchase the new Pioneer BD-R 101A Blu Ray-DVD duplication burner for $999 from Tiger Direct. One would assume that you'll pay a little bit more to get started, but in the end you'll be saving a ton, compared to the $40 Blu Ray disc price listed at stores. However, at this point, everything costs! To purchase a blank BD-R disc to burn onto, you're looking at an additional $25 per single-layer disc and $48 per (50 GB) double-layer disc! The days of paying 10 cents per giga-byte have been replaced by its 70-cent/giga-byte successor. Perhaps those Amazon Blu Ray sales aren't so bad after all!

Maybe in the future, HD DVD duplication won't be so brutal, but right now it's unwise to think you'll be raking in huge cash or getting the best deal by burning your high-definition movies at home. Until new blue laser/large capacity/multi-layer burning technology is available to catch up with the latest innovations, you'll be saddled with higher costs no matter what. If you're not the patient type, then your best bet is to buy the system and look for Blu Ray sales at Amazon, Blockbuster, Circuit City or Best Buy.

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