Back in 2008 or so, when most people still relied on DVDs and Blu-ray discs for home video, the average cost to manufacture a DVD was less than 50 cents. The result was a disc capable of holding about nine gigabytes of data. Manufacturing a Blu-ray disc may have been slightly costlier, but not by much, with the average Blu-ray costing less than $2 to produce. Such a disc offered up to 50 gigabytes of storage. Read More





