LSI Logic to launch a new DVD recorder chip set

[Leoslocks]

LSI Logic to launch a new DVD recorder chip set

LSI Logic's strategy is to cater to current-generation DVDs. "Our goal is to catch the mass market product design cycle in DVD recorders," said Jim Fox, director of marketing at LSI Logic

Basicly, it is a single chip that performs the function of three chips. This should help lower the cost of DVD recorders.

[EvilWizardGlick]

Ballance sells for $139 USD from Wallmart right now.
http://www.eet.com/sys/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=RQTLDDKQPRST2QSNDBGCKHSCJUMEK...900125&kc=2517
"LSI Logic claims the new chip set will allow system OEMs to reduce a DVD recorder's bill of materials by $20."

Anyone see under $100 USD by the middle of the year, and $75 USD or under by the end?

[Bodyslide]

It this goes through, VHS is probably dead by end of 2005.

[Nilfennasion]

VHS has been dead for much longer than that. A visit to any video retailer, or even a quick chat with the staff, will confirm this. The most positive comment about VHS I have heard from a professional since 2003 runs along the lines of "you can't give them away".

[handyguy]

I keep it around, sometimes there are no dvds with the film I want at the store but they have it on vhs.