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Blu-ray drives in PC industry not making much success

by on26 August 2009

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Projected adoption rate of only 16.3% by 2013

Despite
the gradually accelerated adoption of Blu-ray players from consumers in the home theater market and the increasing amount of these 1080p HD titles, adoption rates of the format in the PC industry seem to be inevitably lacking for the next few years to come.

According to a recent report from iSuppli, Blu-ray ROM drives for the PC, Mac, netbooks, notebooks and the PC industry at large will suffer from a low 16.3% total adoption rate by the year 2013.

"BDs won't be replacing DVDs as the primary optical drive in PC systems through at least the year 2013," said Michael Yang, senior analyst for storage and mobile memory at iSuppli. "They eventually will find success, but during the next five years, that success will be limited in the PC segment."

There are two obvious and largely discussed reasons for this projected statement, primarily because consumers are not willing to pay extra costs for the High Definition format with a still underdeveloped library of movie titles. There is also a third reason, being the difficulty in replacing DVDs as a very mature storage medium that has received well over ten years of strong adoption behind it.

As a result of being the third globally anticipated optical successor after the CD-ROM and the DVD, the Blu-ray movie format will have a harder time finding balance between reasonable costs and variety of movie titles. As a data solution, it will have to battle against the ever-decreasing costs of small and affordable external hard drives and flash disks that are advancing in data capacity every six months.
Last modified on 26 August 2009
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