The time when the recordable Blu-ray drive falls to about the current DVD drive revealed

This monthIt became the sales volume exceeding the first time for DVD recordersBesides, Blu-ray is finally showing signs of popularization, such as contents of animation and movies are successively brought to Blu-ray software, but recording-type drives for personal computers drop to the level of the current recordable DVD drive The time to do is revealed.

It is good news for users who want to enjoy playing Blu-ray disc easily on a personal computer, want to back up large-capacity data to optical media for emergency, but want to keep burning just to dedicated DVD maybe.

Details are as follows.
Blu-ray Disc Combo drives to go mainstream in 2009, BD burners in 2011, says Lite-On IT

According to this article, we handle contract manufacturing of electronic equipment and optical drive etcLITE-ONIt is said that in 2009 Blu-ray Combo drive (BD playback only + recordable DVD drive) showed the prospect of becoming mainstream as a drive for personal computers.

Despite the worsening global business confidence, 700,000 units of Blu-ray playback-only drives, combo drives, recordable drives were shipped in 2007, compared to 170 in the first half alone Receiving that it reaches 10 thousand units.

In addition, the price of Blu-ray combo drive is expected to be in the range of 100 to 200 dollars (about 9560 to 19,900 yen) in 2009, but in 2011 the recordable drive will cost between 50 and 100 dollars It is predicted that it will be expected to change from 4800 to 9560 yen. In other words, will it take three more years to go down to the same level as the current recordable DVD drive?

Blue-ray players that are connected to TV rather than PCs are showing substantial growth than PCs, and it seems that they are projected to reach 22 million in 2010.