Recent Comments:
An evening with Uwe Boll's Postal {Joystiq}
May 13th 2008 10:30AM "Instead, I'm left wondering why the filmmaker continues to get as much attention as he does."
Because gaming sites and blogs (like this one), give the guy the oxygen of publicity. If you stop publishing non-stories about the guy he will fade into the deserved obscurity where he belongs.
Its about time the responsible members of the gaming press took an editorial decision and stop publishing non-stories about the guy. And do the same to Jack Thompson while you're at it.
Xbox 360 to get a smaller case revision in 2009? {Engadget}
May 13th 2008 8:36AM The PS3 seems likely to get a slim and it makes sense for the 360 to as well.
Funai's NB500 Blu-ray player sliding into Wal-Mart for $298 {Engadget HD}
May 13th 2008 5:25AM So you whine about a "cartel" (which in reality now represents the entire CE industry) but have no problem with another format that was entirely sewn up by one company?
And fancy CEs wanting to make a return on their investment! Scandalous I say.
Funai's NB500 Blu-ray player sliding into Wal-Mart for $298 {Engadget HD}
May 13th 2008 5:01AM Toshiba in its desperation even managed to undercut its own OEM's Venturer A3 clone. It's no wonder CEs ran a mile. There was zero profit to make in HD DVD when Toshiba are selling them below cost.
Funai's NB500 Blu-ray player sliding into Wal-Mart for $298 {Engadget HD}
May 13th 2008 4:53AM Gus, you receive a detailed and reasoned reply to your throwaway (and wrong) comment. Your response? "zzzzz". You're as immature as Truth Teller.
Funai's NB500 Blu-ray player sliding into Wal-Mart for $298 {Engadget HD}
May 13th 2008 4:49AM The people who confuse the prices are die hard HD DVD fanboys. They like to imagine that although HD DVD and Blu Ray have virtually identical hardware and software requirements, and therefore analogous production costs that somehow HD DVD players are magically that much cheaper. Ignore them or point out their silly arguments every time they utter them.
Funai's NB500 Blu-ray player sliding into Wal-Mart for $298 {Engadget HD}
May 13th 2008 4:43AM Gus, the comparisons to DVD are entirely valid. I know you and the few others in your disgruntled clique think otherwise but you are wrong.
Blu-ray releases on May 13th, 2008 {Engadget HD}
May 12th 2008 6:44PM It's hard to compare like for like sometimes. For example Master & Commander on BD supposedly has few of the extras from the DVD special edition. On the other hand, the sound quality of the BD is meant to be superb. So do you go for the cheaper more extras laden disk, or the high quality but bare bones and expensive disc?
Funai's NB500 Blu-ray player sliding into Wal-Mart for $298 {Engadget HD}
May 12th 2008 6:13PM I think the problem is that with the exception of Sony, other CEs have no reason to subsidize their players. They want to make money by selling players. Pioneer et al want to make money by selling players. And Sony itself probably pledged to the other CEs to not unfairly undercut them, at least for standalones.
Subsidization can be a double edged sword as Toshiba found out. Yes you make your players look cheaper (even if they're not), but you make every other CE run a mile away from your format. Toshiba was getting so desperate they were even undercutting the A3 derived player made from their own OEM partner.
Funai's NB500 Blu-ray player sliding into Wal-Mart for $298 {Engadget HD}
May 12th 2008 6:08PM I think the economic climate is definitely a consideration and must impact prices and sales. However HD is taking over so I see no reason in general that Blu Ray has anything to worry about. It is a no-brainer that if you upgrade to HD that you will want HD content to play on it. Blu Ray fits the bill perfectly and is backwards compatible too.
Price is absolutely a hurdle but it was with DVD too. Prices drop over time and I expect we'll see the prices drop substantially in the second half of this year. The promotions and bargains will kick in and then we'll see what way things go. I expect starting with June we're going to see a lot more mainstream prominence of the format.
