Posted by Telstar on 01/05/08 05:33

"Lloyd Parsons" <lloydparsons@mac.com> wrote in message
news:lloydparsons-527B97.21193104012008@news.individual.net...
> In article <FTAfj.31$xA6.19@trndny09>,
> Derek Janssen <ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> You haven't been paying attention to Sony, et al. They have been very
> vocal that they will not go down the el-cheapo road with BluRay. We'll
> see if they can hold to that or not.
>
> But they HAVE to do something to attract the masses if they want to be
> anything other than a niche product. That something is at least one
> sub-$200 player, you gotta hit that impulse buy pocket. $350+ for a
> player doesn't get that done.
>
> And then there is the MSRP on BD disks. Fox's are almost always at $40,
> others not too far below. The WAR got us the BOGO sales and others to
> drive down the real cost to $15. So let's see what happens to all those
> sales, and really let us see what happens to MSRP.
>
> There is serious dollar considerations that haven't been addressed to
> bring HiDef DVDs to the masses.

Another issue IMO is that neither format has produced PC RW drives that are
anywhere near a decent pricepoint and energy efficiency.

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