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.
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m.knell@talk21.com @ Jun 6th 2008 8:10AM
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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.