[eugovector]

Yep, we're finally getting there. $300 is still a pretty bitter pill to swallow for a single optical drive, but I remember thinking the same thing about DVD-Burners and people still bought them. Unfortunately, I don't think this price is going to drop as fast as the stand alone units. I don't see the demand being there.

For me, this drive would have to hit $100, the price I paid for my A2, before it went in the HTPC.

One more thought, another thing that would speed the sale of these, and the MPAA doesn't want to hear it, somebody cracking the copy protection for good on both formats, and coming up with a piece of software, like DVDShrink, that would save a high quality compressed copy to their movie server. Something like a 10GB H.264 file. Then you see the sale of these things pick up.