http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/ Engadget Comments for Philips and Lite-on announce a $199 Blu-ray drive http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 13th 2007 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/
The thing is still targeted at early adopters and advanced users - since the disk war isn't yet over. And advanced users all have DVD burners already.

The price-wise BD/HD DVD hardly can compete against DVD-R - $40 for drive + $0.40 for disk is hard to match. And my observation that people burn less DVDs than they used to burn CDs - most content now is on Internet and only seldom it makes sense to burn it on disk.

If BD/HD DVD would be say only twice more expensive, then it would make sense to install by default in casual beige boxes. At $200 per drive and $XX per disk it is still a far cry.]]>Nov 14th 2007 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 13th 2007 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 13th 2007 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 13th 2007 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/would bubba like a tv/monitor built into the drive?]]>Nov 13th 2007 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/ Then you just need $500 worth of PC parts and software to play movies with it.

Most modern cards - even cheap ones - do support all required color spaces suited for accelerated playback. BD/HD DVD do support more color spaces, but last I heard they are not used currently - what means in long run they will not be used by mainstream media at all.

IOW you need only software. And I expect at $200, targeted at early adopters, the drive would have all the software bundled.]]>Nov 14th 2007 4:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 14th 2007 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/
But yeah, otherwise this computer add-on, which is more expensive than the cheapest HD DVD stand alone player, is otherwise a good deal in comparison to the other more expensive blu-ray players on the market.]]>Nov 14th 2007 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/
I, for one, am happy to say Blue Ray players at less than the 400$ PS3]]>Nov 13th 2007 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 13th 2007 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 13th 2007 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/
I need a Blu-Ray burner and I want to pay $200 for it.]]>Nov 13th 2007 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827129015

There's a BD-ROM and a writer for just 40$ more. ]]>Nov 13th 2007 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 14th 2007 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 13th 2007 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 13th 2007 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/
Is this the drive you are looking for?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136133

It's $299 and plays both Blu-ray and HD DVD and is a DVD / CD burner.]]>Nov 13th 2007 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 13th 2007 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 13th 2007 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 14th 2007 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 13th 2007 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/
Also, you will never (at least for the foreseeable future) be able to get a
7.1 digital signal to the receiver as Optical/Toslink can only carry digital 5.1. Granted, there isn't much HD content that has 7.1 audio (Weeds comes to mind) but I'm sure that there will be more content eventually and you will need to rely on Dolby EX to simulate the 7.1 with downsampled HD audio courtesy of Cyberlink.

All in all, not a perfect solution. The price really should be $299 + $7 shipping + $79.95 to upgrade to the full version of Cyberlink software to output 5.1 (downsampled audio) + untold small fortune for HTPC.
]]>Nov 13th 2007 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 13th 2007 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 14th 2007 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/(£117 if you want a box :P)]]>Nov 14th 2007 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 14th 2007 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/philips-and-lite-on-announce-a-199-blu-ray-drive/Nov 14th 2007 10:52PM