Ritek gets green light for rewritable BD and HD DVD discs
In great news for torrent freaks worldwide, Taiwanese optical disc giant Ritek has announced its accreditation to manufacture rewritable versions of both HD DVD and Blu-ray discs, meaning that pricing on the still-rare media should begin to drop once production ramps up in the third quarter. According to a company spokesperson, archiving all those TV shows and movies onto 20GB HD DVD-RE and 25GB BD-RE discs will set you back around $10-per-platter, though you are getting either quadruple or quintuple the capacity, respectively, of a regular DVD-RW. No matter, we'll be tossing these things around like cheap CD's in no time anyway.
[Via Gadget Lab]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
J @ May 22nd 2007 6:22PM
Wait is that a typo? HD DVD doing 20GB? HD DVD only does 15GB on one layer!
Mike @ May 22nd 2007 9:27PM
They had improved to 17GB not long ago...why not another advancement.
Dave @ May 23rd 2007 3:57AM
The thing is that there are lots of drives (writers) for Blu-ray while there is at most one single speed writer for hd dvd - and guess what... its from Toshiba :)
mike @ May 24th 2007 3:04AM
Im the type of person who actually wouldent mind spending $600 on a burner, but there is no way in hell Im spending $10-20 per disc. Ill adopt the new format for burning into my computer at the same time I did with dvd, when discs became $4 a piece. I predict by that time, burners will be around $150-200, just like DVD.