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Old 08-30-2007, 09:25 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Gonna be tough since Blu-Ray players need two lenses to playback DVD and BD or an expensive floating lens - and the lens for BD material is difficult to produce and therefore costly. (HD DVD players comparatively only need one, the same ones mass produced for standard DVD players).

This is where a large amount of the cost difference comes out.
I know this was true at the start of the war, but does it still hold true now? Hasn't the prices for the parts fallen largely because of the use of bd drives in the ps3?
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