Posted by WinField on 10/14/07 18:21

Derek Janssen wrote:
> Richard C. wrote:
>
>> "Winfield" <doghouse@operamail.com> wrote in message
>> news:q-udnVDsW-7QMIzanZ2dnUVZ_rGrnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>
>>> Imagine that Blu-Ray wins tomorrow - all new H-Def movie releases are
>>> BLUE. Will prices come down? No. The prices may actually go higher
>>> or stay the same longer. Will BD profile 1.1 appear sooner/quicker?
>>
>>
>> Sounds like the same thing people were saying in the DVD/DivX wars!
>>
>> They were wrong.
>> Prices came WAY down once DivX died!
>
>
> Because companies who made the parts and the disks no longer had to
> worry about which horse to back, and could mass-produce one standard of
> products on a larger scale, thereby making the assemblies cheaper and
> easier to adopt...
> Life After Wartime. :)
>
> Derek Janssen
> ejanss@comcast.net


Have you purchased your BD player yet, Derek? If not, at what price
point would you jump in? How long before Sony meets you on your terms?

thanks,
winfield

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