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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
WASD John @ May 16th 2007 5:28PM
Wouldn't this $100 instant rebate for any Toshiba HD-DVD player apply to the 360 addon drive? Just as long as you already have a 360 this would be the cheapest HD-DVD player at just $99 bucks!
Kevin Murphy @ May 16th 2007 6:15PM
No, it only applies to Toshibas. And according to another post, only to the HDA2 until June, bringing that down to 299 LIST, and probably $225 or so on tax-free Amazon.
As I said on another thread, the disc sell-through to standalone players is much higher than to game machine players. HD DVD has the lead there (offset by the 4 million PS3s), but if they can flood the market with cheap players, the PS3 factor will diminish.
Standalone owners by maybe 10 times the DVDs as PS3 owners. Right now, it's 100,000 or so Toshiba players vs 4 million PS3s (and
Kevin Murphy @ May 16th 2007 6:16PM
No, it only applies to Toshibas. And according to another post, only to the HDA2 until June, bringing that down to 299 LIST, and probably $225 or so on tax-free Amazon.
As I said on another thread, the disc sell-through to standalone players is much higher than to game machine players. HD DVD has the lead there (offset by the 4 million PS3s), but if they can flood the market with cheap players, the PS3 factor will diminish.
Standalone owners by maybe 10 times the DVDs as PS3 owners. Right now, it's 100,000 or so Toshiba players vs 4 million PS3s (and less than 20K BD players). Resulting in 2-1 BD sales. But if Toshiba can change the ratio to, say, 1 million HD DVD players vs 6 million PS3s, and sell-throughs stay the same, they are 3-1 the other way on disc sales, and winning going away.
Of course, the BD folks can always flood the market with standalone BD players, themselves. But not at $1000, and probably not at $600.
(note to self: do not use less-than signs in posts here)