Olevia is not a brand I would purchase but they do make some very inexpensive products. I would think this unit will hit in the $199 - $249 price range.
The funny thing is that you have a bunch of people defending Blu-Ray as a technology and the only reason they do that is because they bought a PS3.
There has been ZERO movement in lowering pricing for Blu-Ray anything aside from PS3. The technology is dead as a door nail and has absolutely no way of hitting mainstream.
What's funny is that there's a huge amount of fanboys thinking that somehow we should all wait for another 10 years for Blu-Ray to take off, like we live in the freakin' nineties. :)
High prices ALWAYS = niche. It's very obvious there's absolutely no competition among CE companies. $500 players is not competition. It's price gauging that nobody is buying.
It's just a matter of time before those CE companies getting ass raped by Sony wise up and drop Blu-ray and go to something more efficient like network based DVD players, TVs etc etc. That's the future after all not some ancient optical media format.
It's totally laughable to continue supporting any type of optical media, a technology that is inferior to anything we have on the market these days, not to mention slow as ass.
I understand how incredibly difficult this is for you to understand but the price will not be $977 in the US. If you took 30 seconds to read the linked DigiTimes article you would realize that it says it will be marketed in Taiwan at that price not in the US.
Do you honestly believe a company such as Olevia would attempt to market a player that costs more than the price of 80% of the televisions they sell? No, even you can understand this if you would stop spouting BS long enough to think about it.
On top of that, Olevia needs to compete with Sony, Samsung, Philips, and Sharp that all have players under $400. The sub-$400 is regular/everyday price for these products by-the-way.
On top of that, Olevia needs to compete with Sylvania, Emerson, Magnavox and Funai in the sub-$300 market.
So you will excuse me if I use my amazing powers of prediction to say that this Olevia unit will at the least match the price of an Emerson!
You could have these same amazing powers too if you would just get treated for your rectal cranial inversion.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jimmy @ May 20th 2008 12:46PM
Olevia is not a brand I would purchase but they do make some very inexpensive products. I would think this unit will hit in the $199 - $249 price range.
Nfinity @ May 20th 2008 2:27PM
What part of $977 didn't you understand? LOL..
The funny thing is that you have a bunch of people defending Blu-Ray as a technology and the only reason they do that is because they bought a PS3.
There has been ZERO movement in lowering pricing for Blu-Ray anything aside from PS3. The technology is dead as a door nail and has absolutely no way of hitting mainstream.
What's funny is that there's a huge amount of fanboys thinking that somehow we should all wait for another 10 years for Blu-Ray to take off, like we live in the freakin' nineties. :)
High prices ALWAYS = niche. It's very obvious there's absolutely no competition among CE companies. $500 players is not competition. It's price gauging that nobody is buying.
It's just a matter of time before those CE companies getting ass raped by Sony wise up and drop Blu-ray and go to something more efficient like network based DVD players, TVs etc etc. That's the future after all not some ancient optical media format.
It's totally laughable to continue supporting any type of optical media, a technology that is inferior to anything we have on the market these days, not to mention slow as ass.
Jimmy @ May 20th 2008 3:16PM
I understand how incredibly difficult this is for you to understand but the price will not be $977 in the US. If you took 30 seconds to read the linked DigiTimes article you would realize that it says it will be marketed in Taiwan at that price not in the US.
Do you honestly believe a company such as Olevia would attempt to market a player that costs more than the price of 80% of the televisions they sell? No, even you can understand this if you would stop spouting BS long enough to think about it.
On top of that, Olevia needs to compete with Sony, Samsung, Philips, and Sharp that all have players under $400. The sub-$400 is regular/everyday price for these products by-the-way.
On top of that, Olevia needs to compete with Sylvania, Emerson, Magnavox and Funai in the sub-$300 market.
So you will excuse me if I use my amazing powers of prediction to say that this Olevia unit will at the least match the price of an Emerson!
You could have these same amazing powers too if you would just get treated for your rectal cranial inversion.
Gus @ May 21st 2008 12:41AM
Link??