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Originally Posted by ack_bak
I don't think we will see $50 BD players anytime soon (maybe $50 BD drives for PC's in the next 18 months). But I do see $199 BD players this year (holiday sales) and perhaps $99 player as early as Q4 2009. I think 2009 will really be the breakout year for BD. Chinese manufacturers are authorized to make BD players next year for the US and global markets and that alone will force prices down.
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Here are your costs to get a BD player into a retailer:
1. Components - you can shrink the circuit board but you still have the BD drive with the expensive zoom lens assembly.
2. Assembly of above
3. Packaging of above
4. Shipping of above
5. Rotalties for all the different technologies that exist within a BD player.
Keep these in mind when you speculate about how low a BD player can be priced. No comparison to a DVD player.
