Posted by willbill on 01/08/08 05:01

Mark Jones wrote:

> Do I really need to say? wrote:

>> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 18:33:56 -0600, "Mark Jones" wrote:

>>> Lloyd Parsons wrote:
>>>> That price was before the big announcement. We'll see what happens.
>>>> But if HDDVD disappears, BD will not drop in price much if any this
>>>> year.

>>> What is your opinion of the Sony BDP-S300 at $399.99 versus
>>> the BDP-S500 at $699.99. These are the MSRP numbers from
>>> a Sony insert in the newspaper.
>>>
>>> The BDP-S500 is shown as supporting TrueHD and DTS-HD sound.
>>> What about the availabilty of an amplifier that can actually handle
>>> these two sound formats without costing more than the Blu-Ray
>>> player.

>> You're not an engineer if you cannot understand how a high end 7
>> channel receiver/amplifier might cost more than an optical disc
>> playback device.

> If it costs more than the $700 price tag of the BDP-S500,
> I am simply not interested. I have already spent way too
> much on audio and video equipment to want to buy
> another receiver/amplifier that costs a fortune.
>
> You didn't have to be an asshole with your response.


assuming you've not bought into BD yet,
imo at a minimum you should be asking
yourself why Warner ditched HD-DVD

i mean, it was clear to me that Toshiba
had done a better job in 2007, and had
seen a nice/strong recovery. their
standalone players are not as clunky
as the BD players, and more important
they cost a lost less

Warner's public announcement of why
they did it was pure political b.s.

my own one guess is that they/Warner
saw that Toshiba might actually win
out over BD

so they went the other way

why?

i mean, the main way to win the
war is low prices

Beta had superior video, but
VHS won (price being a key factor)

Toshiba was doing lower prices for
the standalone players

so why?

my one guess is copy protection

BD has better copy protection
than HD-DVD does

both the video biz and the audio biz
have repeatedly shown that they will
cut off their noses to spite their faces,
as long as they get higher profits in the
early stages of a new technology

HD-DVD has less copy protection than
BD does and will likely be cracked
sooner than BD will

i mean, that's the key driver with
all this digital stuff

CD audio disks can now be ripped,
even with everyday mainstream s/w

DVD movie disks can now be ripped,
but you have to get the s/w off
the web coz mainstream s/w still
does not offer that option

bill

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