Good thing the consumers chose Blu Ray. Now we don't have to worry about any pesky competition driving the prices down! We can expect to pay a premium for making Blu Ray the only high definition disc format. Good for us!
Err..right, kinda like the premium we pay for making DVD the dominant format? You should be glad HD format prices have dropped as much as they have; thinking you're going to find a BD player at 'mainstream' pricing levels this early in adoption is delusional. People are too accustomed to seeing the chinese-manufactured $29.99 DVD players on store shelves, and don't want to wait for BD to hit that mass-market level.
its a widespread issue with us as americans. we dont see value in things we just see price, so when they say well these two items look the same say for example a vizo tv vs the likes of sony and samsung. they will be crying when their inexpensive vizio craps out within a year and the cost of repair is as much as the tv. cheaper does not always = better. even with the hd-dvd players yes they were full spec'd but the remote / design on those things were gawdawful.
Start looking for BANG for your buck. and not cheap as f***
ive seen all the brands your vizio may not go now, but all they had was price advantage and this is dwindled to nothing now, that was their only "gimmick" vizio, olevia are not ten year brands. olevia is already in financial trouble. the prices are so close to each other its worthless to even attempt to buy those "other brand" ive been working in retail enough to see how these tvs do with how long they run over ten years time. dont get me wrong their good enough for a second or third tv. but as a number one. HELL no. we gone thru vizio displays so much and customers returning them for various "defects". i love beacause its not happening to you then you have the best product available, yet when you look deeper its very far from the case. if it were the case then why spend thousands
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chestnu1 @ Feb 26th 2008 3:18AM
Good to see the new profile 2.0 players are coming out soon. Now if they could just do something about the price tag.
Jove @ Feb 26th 2008 4:07AM
i know, right
Tim @ Feb 26th 2008 11:21AM
Good thing the consumers chose Blu Ray. Now we don't have to worry about any pesky competition driving the prices down! We can expect to pay a premium for making Blu Ray the only high definition disc format. Good for us!
Jyncus @ Feb 26th 2008 10:01AM
@Tim
Err..right, kinda like the premium we pay for making DVD the dominant format? You should be glad HD format prices have dropped as much as they have; thinking you're going to find a BD player at 'mainstream' pricing levels this early in adoption is delusional.
People are too accustomed to seeing the chinese-manufactured $29.99 DVD players on store shelves, and don't want to wait for BD to hit that mass-market level.
MrGuru @ Feb 26th 2008 5:02PM
its a widespread issue with us as americans. we dont see value in things we just see price, so when they say well these two items look the same say for example a vizo tv vs the likes of sony and samsung. they will be crying when their inexpensive vizio craps out within a year and the cost of repair is as much as the tv. cheaper does not always = better. even with the hd-dvd players yes they were full spec'd but the remote / design on those things were gawdawful.
Start looking for BANG for your buck. and not cheap as f***
andy @ Feb 26th 2008 5:43PM
MrGuru
I guess I should be shopping for new TV then? I've had my vizio for over a year and a half now.
Value is all about what you get for your money.
A buggy blu ray player for 500 bucks is sure as hell not a value. It's buggy. In my CES land, everything should just work as advertised.
An olivia 37" LCD for 500 bucks IS a value, it's a decent TV that others have found to work properly as advertised.
Face it, HDDVD has movies and at under 100 bucks for players and movies around 10 bucks. The players are bug free, and the movies play.
I'd say that a bug free player and 40 movies vs one single player (likely buggy, but maybe not) has a FAR better value proposition.
How are you defining value? It's obviously not "what do I get for my money?"
MrGuru @ Feb 26th 2008 6:44PM
ive seen all the brands your vizio may not go now, but all they had was price advantage and this is dwindled to nothing now, that was their only "gimmick" vizio, olevia are not ten year brands. olevia is already in financial trouble. the prices are so close to each other its worthless to even attempt to buy those "other brand" ive been working in retail enough to see how these tvs do with how long they run over ten years time. dont get me wrong their good enough for a second or third tv. but as a number one. HELL no. we gone thru vizio displays so much and customers returning them for various "defects". i love beacause its not happening to you then you have the best product available, yet when you look deeper its very far from the case. if it were the case then why spend thousands