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Blu-ray Player Prices Hit 2008 Highs
An anonymous reader writes "HD DVD is almost gone and Blu-ray prices are already on their way up. TG Daily went through average retail prices of some of the popular Blu-ray players and found that you should expect to pay at least $400 for an entry-level Blu-ray player, while you could get a player for less than $330 in February. It really should not be a surprise for all of us, but it is interesting to see how quickly retail adjusted to the new situation and increased prices."
Now how can I turn this into an anti-Sony rant.
Well, if people weren't such "the JOnes' got it!" retards, and simply said "Well, we'll wait until prices came down" those prices would crash.
As it is, I don't understand it, as there's so little real advantage for most people until they upgrade all of their home entertainment system. Quite frankly, I'll happily wait another year or two, and let all these mentally retarded early adopters waste their money. Fucking idiots.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Face it, your format lost. Stop whining already, its getting old. As for me, I went purple, having both BluRay and HD-DVD. The HD-DVD format SUCKED! First, hardly no one used the "features" that were available on HD-DVD in the first place. The picture-in-picture thing was basically only used by Universal (none of my other movies have it, with the exception of MAYBE Transformers, still poking through the bonus features), and the web features were a gimic at best, and I have never been able to get them to work right. We were robbed high-res audio and uncompressed audio on movies that should have been audio refrence discs, such as Transformers, because there was not enough room on the disc. These discs scratched way too easily. Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory got scratched in shipping, and 4 out of 6 of the Netflix discs I got on HD-DVD skipped and had A/V sync problems, and one disc scratched so badly that it was not even recognizable by the player. I had 2 discs that managed to hard-lock my HD-DVD player, causing me to have to unplug the thing. So, that means that 1/6 Netflix BluRay discs I got had no problems whatsoever. How many Netflix BluRay discs have I had issues with? 0. I have rented about 25 movies on BluRay from them, never had an issue with a single disc. Why? Because the BluRay format made it madnitory that all manufactorors apply an anti-scratch coating.
So, HD-DVD was cheaper? Looks like you got what you paid for.
Hey, want to know a secret? Vista has more features than Linux. Mmmmhmmm. Must mean that its the better operating system, from your argument.
Lets go back to price. HD-DVD and BluRay players were almost the same price for the most part of the war. If you are talking about those $150 players Toshiba had out, they really only dropped the price of those toward the end, when it looked like they were trying to drop stock. Oh, and BTW, the PS3 is a GREAT BluRay player, stop ditching it, and it is already expected to drop to $299 soon. And when more manufactorors start dumping players on the market, price will go down. What is out there now, Samsung, Sony and LG? I am sure when companies like, oh, APEX or someone decides to start making BluRay players, prices will come down.
And you think that Hollywood chose the format? Before WHV went Blu, Toshiba claimed that they sold about 1 million players world wide. Strangely, Sony was claiming that they had sold about 10 million PS3s worldwide, this does not include stand alone players, and players made by LG and Samsung. Sales figures on media varied from week to week, but it was obvious for months that BluRay movie sales doubled and sometimes tripled the sales of HD-DVD. Consumers made it good and obvious which they prefered way before WHV made their decision.
So stop crying already, realize that not only did your format loose, but it was inferior in more ways than just storage space, and move on with your life. I am getting freakin sick hearing the Toshiba fanboys continued whining.