Current production costs of a BD player are about US$100, with pick-up heads and chipsets accounting for 50% and 25% respectively, the sources noted. With more and more makers of the two key components and increasing yield rates, production costs are expected to keep decreasing to a level of US$50 in 2010, the sources said.
Blu-ray player production cost to drop to $50 next year
Posted on Monday, June 22 2009 @ 0:40 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck