Sony Pushes Back Release For Blu-Ray Players

Sony has announced that their first model of Blu-Ray player will release in August, not later this month as originally announced. The BDP-SP1, retailing for $1000, will now ship on or about August 15th. Bad news for fans of the new format, and even worse news for the PS3. Since Sony's lackluster E3 showing, a string of bad news has seemed to conspire against the company's next-gen console. From the Gamers with Jobs article: "With the PS3's high-end model coming it at a whopping $400.00 less than a stand-alone Blu-Ray player, Sony needs to release these players as soon as possible. If they wait too long, the PS3 will begin looming on the horizon, causing even devout early adopters to question the intelligence of buying a stand-alone Blu-Ray unit. Sony also needs the largest possible installed base, come launch-time for the PS3. For the Blu-Ray player to be the PS3's version of the PS2's DVD player, casual technophiles need to be able to see the virtues of the Blu-Ray format. If there are few players, and few titles, this might not happen."

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Re:Can Sony survive this easily?

[kesuki]

As to your sig, about more fans than freaks, the problem is that people in general only make people freaks because you've figured out what they really can't stand and then convince them that's what you are :)

Seriously to get my freaks list as big as it is I had to gripe about how evil I was for months on end, and have a big fight with a pillar of the community. Most of the people around here who go ahead and use freaks lists aren't the kind of people who can be convinced easily. There are so many intelligent people who see past deception, that you wind up with a bunch of fans even then.

I'm taking away the karma bonus on this post, cause it's both interesting and a meta discussion about internet trolling.

Re:Can Sony survive this easily?

[AuMatar]

My freak list is bigger than yours though, and I still have more fans than freaks! You have a mere 16, I have 54 freaks and 75 fans (although the gap is closing- it used to be 2:1 fans to freaks). The amazing thing is- I really don't troll much. I speak my mind, which means I occasionally step on apple fanboy, Sony fanboy, libertarian and conservative toes. Which may fall right in with your theory- what I am is right, and people hate those who are right. And when I say Macs are overpriced and have the worst GUI in history, or say the PS3 is overpriced and going to bomb if Sony doesn't fix the price, or that conservatives and libertarians are greedy assholes who care only about themselves, I'm right.