http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/ Engadget HD Comments for Audioholics sets loose Yamaha BD-S2900 Blu-ray player for less than $1,000 http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/Aug 23rd 2008 4:56PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/
And to David. What sort of testing have you done with say, the DVD-S1800 or DVD-S2700? It seems all you do is bash products without so much as one tecnical fact. So my advise to you is to STFU.]]>Aug 23rd 2008 5:13PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/Aug 23rd 2008 8:54PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/
Yamaha does not make a good LD player (they were rebadged Pioneer), Yamaha does not make a good DVD player (they were rebadged Philips, Panasonic, Pioneer). Never I said they don't have a good optical player, I'm just saying that they never made it themself.

Denon: does not do rebadge
Onkyo: does not do rebadge
Panasonic: does not do rebadge
Pioneer: does not do rebadge]]>Aug 24th 2008 2:48AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/
Quote: "Onkyo: does not do rebadge"

FYI: Onkyo's HD DVD player was a rebadged Toshiba. Try not to speak in absolutes.]]>Aug 24th 2008 6:52PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/Pretty soon movie prices will get higher too initiating the end of Blu-ray as an HD disc media format.]]>Aug 23rd 2008 5:23PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/
Most stupid decision ever was Warner deciding to plump for Blu-ray. HD DVD at least had some very neat features even if Toshiba/LG/et al were too slow implementing them. People would have found it worth upgrading to even if the HD side didn't seem that compelling.

Thanks Warner, Fox, et al for killing HD by selecting the one format that stands no chance of making it.]]>Aug 23rd 2008 8:01PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/
Blu-ray is and will remain the only future proof optical physical format.]]>Aug 24th 2008 4:53AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/
Blu-ray is and will remain the only future proof optical physical format.]]>Aug 24th 2008 4:54AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/
It's not hard to see why either. HD isn't as compelling as either Toshiba or Sony or their respective enthusiasts thought it would be. "HD DVD" at least made an effort to be better than DVD in respects other than image/audio quality, but Blu-ray really isn't. Consumers who buy Blu-ray equipment are turning back to DVD, because it plays on everything, because it's lower cost, and because it looks pretty damned good ("Good enough") on everything but the largest, highest resolution, TVs.

I really think right now the format's going to limp along like Laserdisc for as long as it takes for a real consumer-friendly format to come along. With DVD 2.0 (which the DVD Forum could screw up, of course) plus various proprietary download systems on the horizon, the consumer friendly replacement to DVD could be just around the corner.

Blu-ray isn't it. Blu-ray simply cannot succeed. DVD succeeded because all you had to do to take advantage of most of its advantages over VHS was to buy a DVD player. Blu-ray's only strengths over DVD are image and audio, meaning a minimum investment of around $1,000 in TVs on top of the purchase of a player. With the economy in the tank, it's not going to work.]]>Aug 25th 2008 9:56AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/Aug 23rd 2008 8:59PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/Aug 24th 2008 8:24AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/
But the manufacturers had better start bringing out $199 players soon or this format won't catch on like it needs to.

Maybe they don't care because they also sell DVD anyway. In that case, hopefully Hollywood will (successfully) pressure them into lowering the price point (since they have slumping DVD sales). And maybe even manufacturers have slowing DVD player sales (?) so they want to push it anyway.

If so, they sure aren't showing it.]]>Aug 24th 2008 2:43AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/Aug 24th 2008 5:04AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/]]>Aug 26th 2008 3:16AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/23/audioholics-sets-loose-yamaha-bd-s2900-blu-ray-player-for-less-t/
Consumers are this stupid when it comes to higher end electronics. (at least not as many as there used to be).

There isn't one compelling item on the BD-S2900 that makes it stand out over the competition. so where do they get the idea that it's worth more? cause it looks good? ITS NOT A CAR!

Hopefully next year Yamaha will have licked there wounds, LEARNED from this horrid mistake, and will release something that is on par with the market and priced accordingly. Otherwise i see them dropping this market altogether just as they did the the CD-ROM... sighting "its just too competitive to make money".

Until consumers can get a Profile 2.0 or better for less than $300 Profits will not be made in this market for anyone.]]>Aug 26th 2008 2:54PM