Blu Ray vs. HD DVD Duplication, What Differs?

by Ivan j Finch

Have you ever purchased something at a store and then asked yourself, “I just paid $40 for this but it probably only cost 40 cents in materials to make?” It’s sort of a natural instinct, especially for anyone who’s worked in retail, to size up the value in their heads.

According to optical disc industry officials, the cost of DVD duplication for a Blu Ray disc is quite high. A single layer HD DVD, with the capacity or 15GB, costs $1.15 to manufacture. A 25 GB Blu Ray disc costs $1.30, whereas your standard Dual Layer DVD would cost $0.50. This of course is all assuming that you’re buying 25,000 discs at a shot. Across town, at another Blu Ray DVD authoring plant, single-layer Blu Ray discs are going for $1.35 - $1.45, while the 50 GB dual-layer Blu Rays are going for $2.15 - $2.25! If you’re doing the math, that’s roughly 45 cents per GB. Also, don’t forget there’s a setup cost that could be as much as $5,000 per line.

Despite the high costs of Blu Ray-DVD duplication, there may be some hope on the horizon for consumers who just want to do their own Blu Ray DVD authoring at home.

Pioneer and Mitsubishi Chemical Media have opted to create a new disc using an “organic dye recording layer, which is sometimes referred to as “LTH format,” that will reduce material costs and also allow existing CD-R and DVD-R manufacturers to upgrade their facilities to BD-R, using modified equipment, rather than a whole new line.

Consumers will need a firmware update to be able to play LTH format in their Blu Ray Disc players. Mitsubishi and Pioneer said they hope their BD25SL BD-R discs and LTH BD burners will be on the market this spring. Additionally, they are pioneering a metal nitride recording layer that will improve burn speed from 2x to 4x or 6x.

Maybe in the future, HD DVD duplication won’t be so brutal, but right now it’s unwise to think you’ll be raking in huge cash or getting the best deal by burning your high-definition movies at home.

claims to have AnyDVD HD software that can break Blu Ray’s BD protection to make copies of commercially released Blu Ray titles. The large film studios were originally enticed by Sony’s BD copy protection, which they felt was far superior to Toshiba/Microsoft’s HD DVD. SlySoft promises that they’ll be continually trying to keep up with the latest innovations that Sony can come up with and that they’re currently offering the ability to bypass the beginning warnings, age restrictions and limitations on some BR discs.

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