- Joined: October 1997
- Location: Navesink, NJ
- Post Count: 4,662
Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
If you are gonna spend $199 spend $299 and get a PS3. Its the best BD deck out there imo and worth it to have over a lame ole deck =)
Blog: Navesink.net - My Flickr Stream is here - Click here to Email me - Updates at Twitter & FriendFeed
Information Technology Blog: Infotechbuzz - Save The Alamo - Join the HTF Flickr Pool or discuss the pool here
"Buncha Savages in this town"
- Joined: November 1998
- Post Count: 2,008
Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
If someone here has confidential information about what WB did, it was likely shared in confidence and should probably stay confidential.
I think the Christmas 2008 shopping season will see affordable Blu-Ray players.
Studios, caption your internet streams.
-
Chris S
- Chris Sierra
-
- offline
- Joined: April 2000
- Location: Dallas TX
- Post Count: 2,482
Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Mikah Cerucco
I think the Christmas 2008 shopping season will see affordable Blu-Ray players.
|
That's what I'm expecting to happen too. I expect we'll see another similar loss leader in the same vein as the $99 HD DVD player from this past year.
DVD & Blu-ray - It's all about the movies!
- Joined: December 1969
- Post Count: 4,195
Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
It's not so much BD players being $199 as proper profile 1.1 players getting down to that floor. That will probably be two years off, so I'll be reverting to SD DVD in the meantime.
- Joined: October 1998
- Location: Boise ID
- Post Count: 7,206
Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
Mark, that cheap-o Funai IS being billed as being proper profile 1.1.
What's a matter with you - don't you want Immortal Beloved in high-def?
Feline videophiles Susie and Dukie.
- Joined: December 1969
- Post Count: 4,195
Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
Um, that I can live without. Thanks anyway, Dennis.
- Joined: May 1999
- Post Count: 2,841
Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
How long, unfortunately not soon enough for me. This flurry of information about Warner Bros going Blu exclusively has put the breaks on my efforts for a player in the 200.00 range. Hopefully we won't have to wait till Xmas 08 for sub 200.00 players. 299.99 is a bit much for me.
Listen Up People.., Rack Em and Pack Em.., We're Phantoms in 15.
- Joined: August 2001
- Location: New York City Area
- Post Count: 3,532
Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
Call me prejudiced, but I wouldn't trust the first batch of Chinese-made sub-$200 players to be something all that desirable
-- I still haven't touched any Chinese-made players for SD either, and it's not like I ever spend more than ~$400 for a player (and that only because I wanted SACD, etc). Personally, I don't understand why people must wait for a $200 player. If it takes a full year or more for a comparable quality player to drop by ~$100 (and that's my guess), why not make the jump and just start enjoying BD? You'll probably save most, if not all, of that $$$ back by not having to do a double-dip upgrade -- for some, it might also make sense to rent more in BD (for now), if you feel software pricing is too high. That's assuming the titles you want are getting released of course.
I'm w/ Mark in thinking a good, full featured, $200 player is probably still ~2 years away -- maybe during the 2009 holiday season at the earliest.
_Man_
Just another amateur learning to paint w/ "the light of the world".
- Joined: February 2004
- Location: St. Hubert, Quebec
- Post Count: 2,074
Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
While I dipped my toe in HDM with a sub-200$ player (A2 for 169$) and price was a factor for which one I tried first (I got it before the Warner announcement), that was a function of the format war and not my need for a sub-200$ player. My first DVD player cost me 700$, but there was no war, so I didn't mind paying that much. I've purchased some more players since then for less (save my universal hi-res audio player--cost about the same) but that is because later generation players either offered the same for less money or more for the same money.
However, I do find it interesting that this early into the new formats people expect the kinds of pricing that took 6+ years to appear with SD DVD AND they expect a whole host of features that SD DVD could not dream of offering. My 700$ player in 2001 would cost me close to 900$ in today's dollars and it was not a hi-res universal player (I got that capability in 2004 for the same price in dollars (but about 7% less cost in real dollars) as my 2001 player). If I'd had the same expectations in 2004 regarding universal hi-res audio players as many do about HDM players today, I would have expected to pay about 300$ instead of 700$.
Now, I fully understand that not everyone can afford 700$ players (the same was true in 2001) but the difference is that then, not everyone expected a 700$ player for 199$. People who could not afford one then had to wait--and did. Seems our willingness to wait today is gone.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes time, and it annoys the pig.
- Joined: August 2001
- Location: New York City Area
- Post Count: 3,532
Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
Aye. I perfectly understand about being reluctant to spend more if one's worried about the format war -- I didn't jump in myself until a month ago. And I also understand the average consumer waiting for very cheap players. But it just seems a bit odd if even HTFers will wait for $200 players before making the jump assuming we're no longer at risk from the (ending) format war...
_Man_
Just another amateur learning to paint w/ "the light of the world".
- Joined: December 1969
- Post Count: 4,195
Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
It's not just the price that's the problem, though. It's the profile confusion that the BDA has engendered.
- Joined: August 2001
- Location: New York City Area
- Post Count: 3,532
Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
Yeah, although I've stayed away from the cheap Chinese-made gear, I have to admit that I do own a nice Chinese-made cello of all things.
It was not that long ago when Chinese-made stringed instruments were pretty awful, but nowadays, they can be a great value for student and amateur musicians.
Of course, all this globalization also carries a hefty price for many of us w/ the outsourcing of work of all kinds. I guess much of it evens out at the end of the day though it does mean that some/many have to look for different jobs and/or careers as a result...
_Man_
Just another amateur learning to paint w/ "the light of the world".
