Global demand for PC-use Blu-ray Disc drives not to take off until 2H10, say Taiwan makers

Yen-Shyang Hwang, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES Asia Tuesday 1 September 2009 1

While Sony reportedly will lower the retail price for its half-height internal Blu-ray Disc (BD) optical disc drive (ODD), the BDU-X105, to US$49.99, PC-use BD drives will not be popular in the global market at least until the second half of 2010 because...

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