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Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 01/06/08 01:03
In article <KEVfj.59111$rc2.45784@bignews1.bellsouth.net>,
"Mark A" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> "Lloyd Parsons" <lloydparsons@mac.com> wrote in message
> news:lloydparsons-D9EB73.18420405012008@news.individual.net...
> > The competition that was good for the consumer was the phony war. The
> > prices of both BD and HDDVD would never have gotten as low as they have
> > if BD had been the only one. Or have you forgotten Sony's very vocal
> > indication that profits and prices weren't going to be anything like DVD?
> >
> > Now we'll see some improvements and price reductions, but at a far
> > slower pace than if the war kept going for a bit longer.
> >
> > I've got both HDDVD and BD players so I really don't give a damn which
> > one ended up, just wanted it delayed some more. I most likely won't buy
> > many (maybe none) more HDDVD discs.
>
> That really makes no sense. Assuming that BD wins out, you will have the
> same number of hardware manufacturers competing with each other, including
> Toshiba to drive prices down. Admittedly, BD will always cost a bit more
> than HDDVD because of its technical design, but if you look at the way
> computers, flat panel TV's and even regular DVD players have declined in
> price over the last 5 years, one can expect similar declines in BD player
> prices.
>
> This may not help the early adopters much, but companies like WB are looking
> at the long term view with the bulk of consumers who are not going to
> purchase BD or HDDVD in mass any time soon anyway.
You are not listening to the BD mfgs at all are you? They have said
that today's prices are artificially DEFLATED! Doesn't that give you
any hint at to what to expect them to do?
And in case you didn't notice, they've effectively all of the Chinese
mfgs out of the BD market. You know, the guys that really build stuff
cheap.
Believe what you will, I don't think a sub-$200 BD player will be out
before the next Christmas shopping season, maybe not even then. BD will
remain a niche for quite awhile, imo.
Really take a look at the BD machines out there. With a couple of
exceptions, they are grossly overpriced for the crappy way they operate.
Slow loading, firmware upgrades practically everytime a new blockbuster
hits the streets. And not a bit more reliable than the $29 el-cheapo
DVD player at WalMart, which never needs a firmware update to play all
the DVDs out there.
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