Source: CDR Info
Michael Langbehn, the spokesman of the Blu-ray group has indicated in an interview that he does not believe that the price of Blu-Ray player was the last obstacle to the mass adoption of this format, however their cost would decline significantly before the holiday season. He also indicates that we will not see real mass market adoption until drives are sold for under 300.
Stan Glasgow, CEO of Sony, had a fairly similar statement. They believed that we can hope to have players around 200 in the course of 2009.
It is most important that the number of manufacturers (and production) of blue laser diodes continues to grow strongly, enough-so to lower the still-too-high price for these components. If more manufacturers move into this market, it will create new competition to fill that which has disappeared with the death of the HD-DVD format.
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