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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Truth Teller @ May 7th 2008 10:29AM
Jeez but this is quite simply hilarious.
With every outrageously priced new Blu-ray player the PS3/Blu-ray fanclub roll out to say what great value a $400, $500, $600 & $700 player is cos DVD way back in the day was as expensive or more expensive.
You guys obviously are doing your best to ignore this, but, things have moved on.
We now have a mass-market used to disc based movie players at less than $100.
......and no amount of pro-Blu-ray soft soaping the issue will make it go away.
Blu-ray is well & truly headed into 2 relatively tiny niche markets, the largest one based around the PS3 & the other around small volume sales of players like the Pioneers & Panasonic.
It remains utterly invisible to the mainstream mass-market and will continue to be so until they get a finished product out & down to the $150 - $100 level.
.....which you know as well as I is years off.
= way too little far too late.
Blu-ray, the other deaf high def format.
Way to kill any chance of HDMs becoming mainstream guys.
At least the HD DVD crew got to enjoy tiny prices. :P
Mr. E @ May 7th 2008 11:07AM
Yawn. Hey, did you guys hear a troll ranting to himself under the bridge again? I wonder how long someone can live with nothing but negativity and bitterness.
Hang in there TT, and never let the death of your chosen format go. Keep fighting after the war's over, just like those WWII Japanese soldiers left abandoned on remote Pacific islands in the 1950s.
Truth Teller @ May 7th 2008 11:47AM
Yeah yeah yeah, of course.
It's just me "ranting".
Actually sorry to disappoint you so badly but I'm laughing about all of this.
It's just more proof that Blu-ray is going nowhere in the mass-market......and by the time they get around to $100 - $150 players with a decent settled spec it'll be far too late.
DVD stayed king of the hill & the f*ckwits who backed Blu-ray just made sure 'the industry' got it's high margin niche format and HDMs on disc went nowhere.
Tragically that is the sum truth of what is going on.
Fools.
DrXym @ May 7th 2008 12:06PM
Grow up Truth Teller. Your precious format lost. You're not fooling anyone with your immature tirades and specious arguments.
Truth Teller @ May 7th 2008 12:28PM
Still hiding behind HD DVD, DrXym?
LMAO
DrXym @ May 7th 2008 1:42PM
I'm no hiding behind anything fool. Your crybaby tirades are a direct result of your precious format losing. This is quite clear from reviewing your posting history, assuming people didn't know already.
Jeff N. @ May 7th 2008 5:44PM
One reason HD DVD is no longer around is it was costing them a fortune to heavily subsidize every player they sold. So HD DVD players may have been inexpensive but the price never actually reflected the true cost. Toshiba might of been able to hang in there a little longer if they weren't losing so darn much money on the hardware.
Truth Teller @ May 8th 2008 5:52AM
JeffN
I wouldn't be so sure Toshiba were making such big losses (not when they could afford to write all of their HD DVD costs as a 1-off payment of less than $500 million).
That btw is also a tiny sum compared to the several years of major losses Sony alone has posted in connection with Blu-ray and it's nothing like the level of loss they have been making on each PS3 they sell.