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Blu-ray Discs Won't Be Cheap

Posted by Zonk on from the leeloo-dallas-multipass dept.

frdmfghtr writes "Red Herring has a story on the forthcoming price of Sony Blu-Ray HD DVDs. At $23.45 wholesale, they aren't cheap. From the article: 'Some of the movies to be released in the first batch by Sony are The Fifth Element, Desperado, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, Legends of the Fall, and Terminator. Sony's wholesale price of $23.45 for Blu-ray discs is 56 percent more than the $14.99 it costs to buy a new DVD of Hitch from BestBuy.com. A Terminator DVD is available for $9.99.' Another reader suggested a link to an Ars Technica article with more information.

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  1. Hitch!?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Some of the movies to be released in the first batch by Sony are The Fifth Element, Desperado, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, Legends of the Fall, and Terminator.

    Hitch?!? Are you kidding me? Anyone who shells out $35 or $40 buck for Hitch deserves to have Sony's big old chubby pokin em in their nether regions. I mean if they offered you Dukes of Hazzard for $50 I bet you would bend over and take that one too.

  2. superior tech VS very similar established tech by J-1000 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I smell Betamax 2.0.