The fundamental idea behind a DVD hitting bargain bin prices and HDDVD hitting $5 prices is pretty much the same. Thats what the market is willing to pay for them.
As BD reaches a larger, more thrifty demographic the studios will price movies with longer shelf times accordingly. The same way they did with dvd. We've established that manufacturing costs arent stopping them so theres no reason they couldnt.
In contrast LD never got more than 5% and always had the demographic willing to pay more, it was never sold at large retail chains, and I believe each disc cost about $10 to manufacture.
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