Fact: Most computer LCD panels are great for viewing high definition content. Fact: Blu-ray won the high definition format war. Fact: Black bears run away from you, brown bears run at you. That last fact doesn't have anything to do with what we're talking about, we (and Dwight) just thought you should know.
A Blu-ray optical drive and PC display might seem like the perfect match, especially since prices have dropped from around $100 to $75, but consumers just aren't very interested. According to DigiTimes, the market penetration for BD drives in 2010 isn't going to see much growth over 2009 once all the numbers are tallied.
That's bad news for Lite-On and Quanta Storage, Taiwan's two largest optical drive makers. The two companies combined will only see BD drive shipments total 1.17 million in 2010, a mere 1.5 percent of their total optical disc drive business. On the bright side, that's up half from 2009, though by only half a percentage point.
