I submitted this news yesterday afternoon, but no credit was given.
Anyways, this is great news for Blu and bad news for those who are harping on price as the reason for Blu's doom! I wonder if our usual suspects are man enough to eat their words?
I suspect we will see prices for standalones come down as well and the adopotion rate to increase an well as seeing more blundled Blu players with HD TVs at the major electronic stores!
Anyways, this is great news for Blu and bad news for those who are harping on price as the reason for Blu's doom! I wonder if our usual suspects are man enough to eat their words? =====================================================
Well let's at least see it happen for real first instead of anyone pretending that it already has, eh?
Talk is cheap, sadly for Blu-ray their supposedly 'final spec' players are not and a proper range of profile 2.0 standalone players is still non-existant.
A bare DVD burner with BD ROM drive @ $100 by year's end? With that stated as it's regular year-around price?
I'd be surprised (tell me it's a burner and I might show a little interest, but you & I already know it isn't).
A Blu-ray profile 2.0 standalone player @ $200? (regular price, not X-mas season or Black Friday one-off.....we already saw $279 last X-mas and it went straight back up to $379 after HD DVD vanished)
I very much doubt it.
Besides, if you think all anyone ever complained about was price then you are misrepresenting what has been said for some time.
Although it would clearly be much better, $200 (in the USA alone) is not the 'magic' point for true mass-adoption anyways. $100 is more like it (in the USA alone). As HD DVD proved.
........and even then there's still a lot more wrong with Blu-ray than that. We've yet to see them truly begin to torture their paying customers with their variable BD+ DRM cr@p yet.
No, they'll just keep shifting the goalposts. "I'll never buy a player until they're $300", "I'll never buy a $300 player until it is internet enabled", "I'll never buy a $200 Chinese player", "I'll never buy a $150 player unless " etc.
Anyway back on topic, if this device with DVD+-RW is $100, it must mean read-only devices are $50 to OEMs or less. I expect that combined with VLSI for Java, video processing means sub $200 players will be available next year
m.knell@talk21.com YOU missed the point! The same 2 always complain about price and saying it will never go down and this shows that it will. Now that prices are being lowered ahead of expected including the Wal-Mart offer, you'll see them FIND something else to complain about. I'm not saying anything is perfect but I am enjoying my HD and I was smart enough to get a safe and upgradable player, the PS3, which I primarily used as a Blu-Ray player. I'm not dictating anything but what i'm saying is this is FURTHER evidence that our extreme haters are off base and their opinions and predictions are completely unreliable.
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XDragon @ Jun 6th 2008 6:53AM
I submitted this news yesterday afternoon, but no credit was given.
Anyways, this is great news for Blu and bad news for those who are harping on price as the reason for Blu's doom! I wonder if our usual suspects are man enough to eat their words?
I suspect we will see prices for standalones come down as well and the adopotion rate to increase an well as seeing more blundled Blu players with HD TVs at the major electronic stores!
m.knell@talk21.com @ Jun 6th 2008 8:10AM
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XDragon
Anyways, this is great news for Blu and bad news for those who are harping on price as the reason for Blu's doom! I wonder if our usual suspects are man enough to eat their words?
=====================================================
Well let's at least see it happen for real first instead of anyone pretending that it already has, eh?
Talk is cheap, sadly for Blu-ray their supposedly 'final spec' players are not and a proper range of profile 2.0 standalone players is still non-existant.
A bare DVD burner with BD ROM drive @ $100 by year's end?
With that stated as it's regular year-around price?
I'd be surprised
(tell me it's a burner and I might show a little interest, but you & I already know it isn't).
A Blu-ray profile 2.0 standalone player @ $200?
(regular price, not X-mas season or Black Friday one-off.....we already saw $279 last X-mas and it went straight back up to $379 after HD DVD vanished)
I very much doubt it.
Besides, if you think all anyone ever complained about was price then you are misrepresenting what has been said for some time.
Although it would clearly be much better, $200 (in the USA alone) is not the 'magic' point for true mass-adoption anyways.
$100 is more like it (in the USA alone).
As HD DVD proved.
........and even then there's still a lot more wrong with Blu-ray than that.
We've yet to see them truly begin to torture their paying customers with their variable BD+ DRM cr@p yet.
DrXym @ Jun 6th 2008 8:16AM
No, they'll just keep shifting the goalposts. "I'll never buy a player until they're $300", "I'll never buy a $300 player until it is internet enabled", "I'll never buy a $200 Chinese player", "I'll never buy a $150 player unless " etc.
Anyway back on topic, if this device with DVD+-RW is $100, it must mean read-only devices are $50 to OEMs or less. I expect that combined with VLSI for Java, video processing means sub $200 players will be available next year
XDragon @ Jun 6th 2008 8:37AM
m.knell@talk21.com
YOU missed the point! The same 2 always complain about price and saying it will never go down and this shows that it will. Now that prices are being lowered ahead of expected including the Wal-Mart offer, you'll see them FIND something else to complain about.
I'm not saying anything is perfect but I am enjoying my HD and I was smart enough to get a safe and upgradable player, the PS3, which I primarily used as a Blu-Ray player. I'm not dictating anything but what i'm saying is this is FURTHER evidence that our extreme haters are off base and their opinions and predictions are completely unreliable.
DrXym @ Jun 6th 2008 9:58AM
I wonder why "Truth Teller" has suddenly become m.knell@talk21.com