Taiwanese Company to Mass Produce Rewritable HD Discs

Lucas123 writes "Ritek Corp. plans to start mass producing BD-RE and HD DVD-RE next quarter. 'Initially, however, BD-RE and HD DVD-RE discs will be pricey. The average cost per disc will remain around $10 in retail outlets, despite production costs of around $5 per disc, said Eric Ai, a Ritek representative. Prices won't likely come down until other mass disc producers in Taiwan win accreditation to make the discs, and ramp up volumes.'"

Taiwan is NOT "Thai" !

[Golgafrinchan]

Ritek is a Taiwanese company.

The headline implies that Ritek is located in Thailand.

Way to go, American geography experts!

Compare that to dual-layer or lightscribe....

[phorm]

A few months ago, I wanted to buy lightscribe discs and they were still around $25 for a 10-pack, so about $2.50 per disc

Dual-layer discs were running about the same, sometimes more. So that would be about 4.3Gb or 8.6Gb'ish...
$1.72/GB for a lightscribe, or $3.44/GB on the dual-layer

Now compare that to single-layer HD-DVD discs with 25GB, that's about $2.50/disc again.

Not too bad, all things considered (and now the dual-layer or lightscribe stuff has gone down too).

I wonder how much a dual-layer HD-DVD or LightScribe HD-DVD disc will run? My personal hope is that the newer format discs push the price of existing DVD's (especially dual-layer or scribeable ones) down, since I'm sticking with standard DVD-players at the moment.