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01-05-2008, 04:32 PM
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How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
Just curious what everybody thinks and why. Blu-Ray players are still priced high enough to stop many people from buying the players. It seems to me that $199 is the price point where a lot of people just shrug their shoulders and buy. Right now, I am still happy with my 1080i upconverting DVD player. Actually, for me, the biggest jump in perceived picture quality came when I went from a standard DVD player to a progressive scan DVD player.
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01-05-2008, 05:06 PM
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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 =)
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01-05-2008, 05:49 PM
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Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
I agree with Sam... and the PS3 is not only 1.1 (PIP) ready with a firmware flash, but it will also be firmware updated for full 2.0 BD-live web as well as onboard DTS-HD MA decoding.
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How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
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Not long, considering they're already just $50 more.
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01-05-2008, 06:02 PM
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Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
I believe there's been some good talk about Chinese BD players making an appearance at CES. So the price on the hardware side will continue to drop soon enough.
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01-05-2008, 07:36 PM
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Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
The PS3 will not help Blu-ray to mainstream adoption. If a game console was going to do that, it already would have.
With the least expensive BD player at $399 (list price), Blu-ray companies have a ways to go to add the hardware side of the equation to the HD landscape. $399 is not mainstream pricing. Toshiba already showed that.
The problem the BD companies have is the relatively higher price of the most expensive component in a standalone player, the drive. The only reason Toshiba was able to get their pricing down so quickly was their ability to design and build a low cost HD DVD drive. Until there is a BD drive at a similar cost, higher priced BD players will continue to hold back mainstream adoption of that format.
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01-05-2008, 08:08 PM
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Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
I agree with Robert. I also think that once the BD drives for Mac and PC gain this year, it will help Stand Alone players for HT.
It won't happen soon, but remember the early Panasonic DVR series and where it is now. We'll get there.
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01-05-2008, 08:26 PM
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Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
And Sony needs to earn back a big investment they may have been making yesterday...
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01-05-2008, 09:19 PM
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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.
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01-05-2008, 10:29 PM
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Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
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Originally Posted by Mikah Cerucco
I think the Christmas 2008 shopping season will see affordable Blu-Ray players.
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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.
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01-05-2008, 10:43 PM
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Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
The cheapest stand-alone Blu-Ray player I've seen in Canada is $450 (while an HD-DVD player can be had for $250).
When the prices hit around $200-$250 (and when there are a decent amount of quality films available in the format), then I'll jump in.
I don't want to own a game console to play movies, so that's out of the question.
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01-06-2008, 06:01 AM
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Re: How long until Blu-Ray players are $199?
Funai have confirmed the launch (Q1 of 2008) of their Blu-ray player which will retail at under $300. Chances are this will have an in-store price below $250.
http://www.funai.us/BDPrelease010208.pdf
I also believe there will be at least one Chinese Blu-ray player announced at CES.
Certainly, by Q4 of 2008, I expect $199 Blu-ray players to be quite common.
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