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Remember the days when you could buy a DVD duplication burner for under $200, get a 100-pack of DVD-R's for $22 and have a full movie copied in just forty minutes? Those were the days! Yet with the advent of Blu Ray disc technology, the film industry is getting more and more expensive for consumers and may be just the speed bump industry leaders need to stave off the downloading generation just a few years longer.


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.


As you know, DVD duplication is no easy task. It's not like burning a CD, where you can just easily rip it onto your computer in five or ten minutes. Instead, you'll need special software to break through copyright barriers and you'll have to wait much longer for the information to copy. Software company "SlySoft"


Until new blue laser/large capacity/multi-layer burning technology is available to catch up with the latest innovations, you'll be saddled with higher costs no matter what. If you're not the patient type, then your best bet is to buy the system and look for Blu Ray sales at Amazon, Blockbuster, Circuit City or Best Buy.

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