11.02.2010 06:20 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Blu-ray in front of DVD, well in a certain way

At the latest count, the DVD is very far from being supplanted by Blu-ray, since the Blu-ray progresses only very slowly. There is however a field where Blu-ray has passed in front. This is that of the business generated by the decoding chips integrated into the readers. This, according to the manufacturers of these chips, exceeded half of their business in 2009. It should be said that this was easy. The chips of decoding DVD (MPEG 2), are today reduced to a very simple form and do not cost much. In the case of Blu-ray, these chips are very complex and need to be very powerful to decode the HD in H.264, MPEG 2 and VC1 and this makes them 8 times more expensive. According to the estimates given, the growth of the sales of Blu-ray equipment should make that their chips account for the 3/4 of the business of these chipmakers. They will however continue to manufacture DVD chips for still a long time. Their volume of production should drop by 40% by 2013. During this time, the Blu-ray chips sho

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