also @ TechSpot: Microsoft launches YouTube app, Google demands it taken down

› ›

AOpen to sell Blu-ray drives by end of November

By Derek Sooman

On October 17, 2005, 1:44 PM

AOpen claims that it will begin selling Blu-ray drives for PCs by the end of November. Expect to pay a premium for the drives at this time. Remember when DVD-RW first came out? I think you could probably have bought a whole PC for what it cost for one of those drives. Now, they are almost standard in any new PC. So do yourself a favour and don't rush out and buy a Blu-ray drive, no matter how tempting it is - unless you are completely loaded, of course.

'When they are first launched, Blu-ray drives will be sold at a premium,' Mike Chiang, senior director, AOpen told ITP Technology. 'This is no different from when dual-layer DVD writers and DVD/CD-RW combo drives first made their way on to the market. Those drives too were sold at premiums when they were first launched.'

No tags on this story

Post a comment

Post a new comment

Social Login & Guest Posting TechSpot Members
Login here or sign up for free,
it takes about a minute.
Get complete access to the TechSpot community. Join thousands of technology enthusiasts that contribute and share knowledge in our forum. Get a private inbox, upload your own photo gallery and more.
TechSpot on:

Most Popular

Trending Featured
More Trending Topics

Featured on Cases

Downloads and Drivers

Downloads   Drivers  

J. River Media Center 18.0.187

ComicRack 0.9.169

Ashampoo UnInstaller 5.03

Files Terminator Free 2.5.0.11

Advanced Host Monitor 9.50

More Downloads

Latest Discussion

Have DOTA 2 keys to give (steam requiered) 7 replies on Gaming

Steam trading zone 113 replies on Gaming

Vertex shader 1.1 and Pixel Shader 1.1 28 replies on Audio and Video

No monitor signal 61 replies on Audio and Video

AMD Radeon HD 6550D Driver Issue 5 replies on Device Drivers

More Recent Discussion

Subscribe to TechSpot

Get free exclusive content, learn about new features and breaking tech news.