Posted by Derek Janssen on 01/05/08 01:16

Lloyd Parsons wrote:
>
> Let's assume that this is the death-knell of HDDVD for the moment.

<obMaxBialystock> ASSUME away... :)

> Well, not unless you count holding on to a 1-2% niche as winning. To
> gain the mass-market, they need a sub $200 player, imo. But Sony, as
> well as others, have insisted that they are not interested in going to
> the low price model that permeates the SD DVD market today. So now
> we'll see just how badly they really want the mass market.
>
> Will we see a sub-$200 player soon?
> What about all those sales that have pushed the actual selling price of
> BD movies to the $15 pricepoint? Will they still happen?

They will as soon as companies can stop holding back production and the
cost of equipment to a "niche" level, and begin to accept one product as
being more available in the mainstream--
Thus making the parts, disks, and production more available at a lower
cost, thus lowering the costs of movies and players across the board,
and, UNLIKE last-ditch fire sales, *keeping* prices lower.

Which's kind of the whole point of the "There can only be One" war in
the first place.
Some of us remember the days before June 1999, and we're not itching to
have $799 DVD players and $39.95 disks back again.

Derek Janssen (some of us old-timers remember how the system works)
ejanss1@verizon.net

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