Digitimes reports that while the global demand for PC Blu-ray drives has not really taken off, it is expected that notebook drives will be responsible for growth in Blu-ray usage. The site has spoken with the general manager of the PLDS who also explained that the reason is that desktop PCs are much cheaper and hence the Blu-ray drive would be a bigger part of the costs.

Notebooks retail for a higher price which makes that Blu-ray drives account for a relative lower part of the total costs of a notebook, while a Blu-ray drive in a desktop PC almost doubles the price of the PC.

Based on orders placed by international PC vendors, it is expected that about 10-15% of the notebooksshipped in 2008 will have a Blu-ray drive. According to forecasts of Techno Systems Research (TSR) the global shipment of all optical disc drives in 2008 will be about 318 million units, but only 6 million (1.9%) will be Blu-ray drives.