Originally posted by: ferris209
Maybe I phrased that wrong. What I am referring to is the fact that current factories producing DVD's can be slightly altered and can make HD DVD's, I'm pretyt confident that licensing fees would be minimal if history is correct. However, to make Blu-Ray discs, it takes a whole factory re-tooling and I am pretty certain they'd jack up licensing fees like crazy once they leave HD DVD dead in the dirt. That all equals high assed Blu-Ray discs. Maybe I'm wrong, I dunno, I'm just speculating about a subject I admittedly don't know much about other than what I read on here and in the news.
Maybe I phrased that wrong. What I am referring to is the fact that current factories producing DVD's can be slightly altered and can make HD DVD's, I'm pretyt confident that licensing fees would be minimal if history is correct. However, to make Blu-Ray discs, it takes a whole factory re-tooling and I am pretty certain they'd jack up licensing fees like crazy once they leave HD DVD dead in the dirt. That all equals high assed Blu-Ray discs. Maybe I'm wrong, I dunno, I'm just speculating about a subject I admittedly don't know much about other than what I read on here and in the news.
As I remember, that was an additional cost of a buck or two for each BD over HD-DVD. Now that the production lines are up and running, the cost of the manufacturing upgrade is probably negligible in comparison to the profits.
Otherwise, the Blu-ray organization is big and wouldn't start voting to abuse the market anymore than DVDs do. The primary companies behind the BD format are most of the primary companies behind the DVD format. The only proprietary things about Blu-ray that I can think of would be the companies that own the patents for the technology behind BD. if they get bitchy and greedy with their agreements to the organization of which they are members, they could potentially cause the cost of Blu-ray discs to go up, but I highly doubt they would go that far.