Posted by Derek Janssen on 10/14/07 19:11

WinField wrote:

>>>> 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.
>
> Have you purchased your BD player yet, Derek? If not, at what price
> point would you jump in?

Well, having given up on Samsung, and not getting a straight answer from
Sharp or LG, I'm keeping a 1.1 eye on a firmware-loaded $500 PS3 as soon
as the Nov./Christmas/Jan. sales start throwing Best Buy coupons at us...

The deciding factors?
1) Update adaptaility (at least through '09)
2) Minor features missing from other players (eg. Wide vs. 4:3 switch
over HDMI)
and
3) Kingdom Hearts on PS2. :D

Derek Janssen (not necessarily in that order)
ejanss@comcast.net

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