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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
DrXym @ May 24th 2008 3:35PM
It's already $300 in Walmart, probably $250 in 3 months and $200 by Christmas. It's not meant to be a bad player assuming you have no need of analogue audio outputs.
HD4ME @ May 24th 2008 8:24PM
Hahahaha, the BR gang just don't get it.
NO ONE is buying BR standalone yet they keep releasing these POS players. They are just a F'N DVD player with an improved picture but this isn't even a good one, $350 Lol, what a joke.
Yip, BR has licensed the Chinese to build POS BR players but priced them off the planet with there greedy over the top royalties and licensing fees. Toshiba struggled to sell good quality ones at half this price, BR is just a dirty joke played by the greed crazed sony corp hell bent on market domination, directed at the uneducated western market, we wont have to wait to long, BR has sewn the seeds of self destruction, just another typical sony F up.
DrXym @ May 25th 2008 4:41AM
That's an impressive angry and paranoid rant. The reality of course is that CEs wouldn't be onto their 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation players if no one was buying them. Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon etc. wouldn't be selling them if no one was buying them. But clearly they are, and with the second half of year about to begin, sales are only going to go. I can see how this could be a problem for the few crybabies (you included) who just can't get over the death HD DVD but that's your problem not mine.
As for Chinese players. When they start selling in earnest they'll sell on their own merits - price or performance. No one is forcing you to buy them.
HD4ME @ May 25th 2008 6:25AM
2nd, 3rd and fourth generation and most of them still aren't profile 2.0, way to go sony ray
DrXym @ May 25th 2008 7:42AM
Profile 2.0 is optional dumbass. And considering how marginal the feature is, it is not surprising. But of course you're about to tell me a single HD DVD which absolutely warranted hooking up your player to the internet to experience. A single one?
Mr. E @ May 25th 2008 4:53PM
@HD4ME: When your HD DVD was already in the corner starting to get seriously pummeled at this time last year, all we kept hearing from you guys was how the Chinese were going to swoop in with their bargain-basement players and save the day. Now the Chinese make nothing but crap? Nice switcheroo there.
I've said all along that these Chinese players are of questionable quality, but since J6P seems to love them at Wal-Mart, it can't do anything but help the Blu-ray adoption rate at this point.