"Prepare to be shocked with the amount of people that will run to buy HD DVD players this cheap for their families"
I will be shocked if that many people go and buy an HD player of either stripe at $200. That's $50 less than the ever popular Wii. You are banking quite a lot on the fact that everyone and their fifth cousin are ready to adopt HD media.
While HD TVs are at a comfortable margin in the US, many folks are content at this point to watch HD cable. It took time for folks to adopt DVD, and the "sweet spot" wasn't even $200.
This is a niche market right now, and many that want that capability are getting through the PS3. Perhaps only a low percentage of PS3 users watch as many movies on it as I do, but that low percentage is enough to destroy HD-DVD stand-alone sales.
There aren't enough movies, on either format, to interest your average citizen. And by the time there is, one format will be dead. I believe that HD-DVD will be the buried format this time around.
PS The 1000 sales in one day really isn't all that impressive. If Sony announced that their stand-alone player would sell for $399 at one of the SonyStyle stores they would be gone too in a day. Ebayers alone would complete the sale.
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borland502 @ Jul 27th 2007 11:03AM
"Prepare to be shocked with the amount of people that will run to buy HD DVD players this cheap for their families"
I will be shocked if that many people go and buy an HD player of either stripe at $200. That's $50 less than the ever popular Wii.
You are banking quite a lot on the fact that everyone and their fifth cousin are ready to adopt HD media.
While HD TVs are at a comfortable margin in the US, many folks are content at this point to watch HD cable. It took time for folks to adopt DVD, and the "sweet spot" wasn't even $200.
This is a niche market right now, and many that want that capability are getting through the PS3. Perhaps only a low percentage of PS3 users watch as many movies on it as I do, but that low percentage is enough to destroy HD-DVD stand-alone sales.
There aren't enough movies, on either format, to interest your average citizen. And by the time there is, one format will be dead. I believe that HD-DVD will be the buried format this time around.
PS The 1000 sales in one day really isn't all that impressive. If Sony announced that their stand-alone player would sell for $399 at one of the SonyStyle stores they would be gone too in a day. Ebayers alone would complete the sale.