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- mrn111, on 03/14/2008, -7/+304Is anyone surprised?
- inactive, on 03/14/2008, -19/+184I don't need Blu-ray or HD-DVD... I got torrents.
- frontporsche, on 03/14/2008, -26/+149Their price chart doesn't include the most important player, the PS3.
- baddog993, on 03/14/2008, -10/+122Eh not to worried about it, dont plan on buying a blue ray player for some time to come. Dvd will do just fine for me for a while.
- mrfreeziexp, on 03/14/2008, -3/+105Same thing will happen if AMD dies.
- nakile, on 03/14/2008, -33/+109This is why I didn't want Sony controlling a format...
- dallen, on 03/14/2008, -7/+80I am Jack's Complete Lack of Surprise
- mrfreeziexp, on 03/14/2008, -0/+66what did you want? "BREAKING: Blu Ray prices most expensive EVAR!!!"
- Beanbones, on 03/14/2008, -1/+55Lack of competition driving prices upward?!? Inconceivable!
- zoomtechtv, on 03/14/2008, -3/+42Why should I even get a Blu-Ray player when I have a Laser Disc player?
- ElBeh, on 03/14/2008, -5/+41Don't try poetry again. Ever.
- egbert, on 03/14/2008, -23/+59How much of this is due to the fact the US dollar has dropped a lot in value recently?
Virtually every major CE manufacturer with the exception of Toshiba was competing for the blu ray money in your pocket. Even Toshiba has a 50% stake in a company producing blu ray drives so I'm sure they come out of their period of mourning soon enough.
Prices will drop through competition and economies of scale. - fallenone05, on 03/14/2008, -9/+43why would anyone who's intrested in a blu-ray player not get a ps3? It has a million features more than a standard player...
- Velnich, on 03/14/2008, -2/+32... the "ps3" still has competition and Sony can only benefit further from it being less expensive than the other players.
- reeder, on 03/14/2008, -33/+61You can thank the Sony infiltrators on Digg and Reddit pushing all those ***** blu-ray "news articles" for the last couple years, and everyone else who fell for the *****, of course.
- betterth, on 03/14/2008, -3/+25That's absolutely wrong. You can't look at such simplistic models as "Supply goes down, demand goes up so prices go up". What about now, when "Supply is adequate and demand is rising".
They lowered prices to kill a competitor. Now that they have achieved monopoly, they are artificially raising prices. Welcome to Sony world. - nighthawk8713, on 03/14/2008, -6/+28That is one of the most geeky things I have ever seen.
- benman587, on 03/14/2008, -4/+24Go to Fark
- Philosomatika, on 03/14/2008, -13/+33No surprise there. Though I have a feeling this wouldn't happen if HD-DVD won. We all knew blu-ray won as its the format that the companies can use the make the most money from the consumer, not that it is the better of the two formats. But hey I could be wrong before all diggers start getting on their high horses.
- hoodedrobin, on 03/14/2008, -6/+25Too bad we dont live in japan... it takes most americans a few days to download 30+gb of ***** even from the best sources.
Ill say this though I dont have a need for 1080 whatever 720 and even standard def look fine to me, its not how good the movie looks its how good the movie is. High def is just hollywood slacking on storyline and replacing it with better graphics. - headband, on 03/14/2008, -3/+21playing a blu ray is not as straight foreward as a standalone player, some people prefer simplicity and could care less about games
- davidrools, on 03/14/2008, -0/+18Blu.Ray.Players.More.Expensive.Without.H.D.D.V.D.
- felman87, on 03/14/2008, -5/+22amazon has different prices listed
- emehrkay, on 03/14/2008, -1/+18AMD needs to step their game up man. I used to love me an AMD k6 or athlon, my choice just showed my superior computer knowledge.
*sigh*
I bet they have something hot coming out thought, they just have to. I bet they'll finally marry the gpu and cpu and it will render the matrix in 720p - WhereAmI, on 03/14/2008, -1/+17Yes. They still have to take over DVD.
- WhereAmI, on 03/14/2008, -17/+32Sony has nothing to do with it. You don't see the PS3 more expensive, do you?
- RSS14, on 03/14/2008, -4/+19That poem was so bad. You even misspelled Blu-ray.
- bdbr, on 03/14/2008, -3/+18I thought the same thing when I read this article (yesterday), and checked - the dollar had dropped 13% against the yen since the beginning of the year, which correlates closely to some of these increases. But blaming Sony is much more fun, right?
- drmangrum, on 03/14/2008, -0/+14DVD doesn't "suck balls." Sooner or later the price will come down and when it does, there will already be a huge library of movies to choose from. Not only that, but the price of blu-ray movies should go down too.
Tell me, why should i buy a blu-ray movie that can be played on 1 player, when i can get the dvd that can play at home, on my computer, in my portable dvd player, at a friends house, and at my parents house for $10 less per movie?
Until Sony pulls their head out of their asses and brings blu-ray to a $250 price point and has portable players on the horizon, few will buy it. - dubey, on 03/14/2008, -6/+20Actually, Economics would tell you that cost per unit would go down because of economies of scale due to increased production and demand. Usually this results in a price drop.
- Uranium118, on 03/14/2008, -1/+15They do fine, but at over 20GB for most of them, people prefer to go with a 8GB compressed encode. The difference is minimal for the average person, you probably won't notice unless you try hard to.
- DiggzDE, on 03/14/2008, -9/+23This is what you get for wanting an end to the format war so soon. I wanted the thing to draw out for at least another two to three years... but noooooo.
- bigbadgoat, on 03/14/2008, -4/+17I forgot when Blu-ray surpassed DVDs in disc sales.
When did that occur exactly?
No competition my ass. - egbert, on 03/14/2008, -3/+16It is not Sonys proprietary format . The format is controlled by the Blu-ray Association which includes Apple, Inc., Dell, HP, Hitachi, LG, Mitsubishi Electric, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Sun Microsystems, TDK, Thomson, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney, Warner Bros., ... See http://www.blu-raydisc.com/general_information/Sec ... for a complete list.
- krische, on 03/14/2008, -0/+13The dedicated blu-ray players dont play games, surf the internet, or allow you to install linux on them.
- Larakin, on 03/14/2008, -1/+14No, but it still sucks just a bit...
- Sk8SkaNJ, on 03/14/2008, -2/+14You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
- inactive, on 03/14/2008, -5/+16I blu-ray fanboys digging me down saying I didnt know what I was talking about when I predicted this. I said it before and I will say it again, Sony is NOT known for lowering prices.
- egbert, on 03/14/2008, -11/+22Sony does not control the format. The format is controlled by the Blu-ray Association which includes Apple, Inc., Dell, HP, Hitachi, LG, Mitsubishi Electric, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Sun Microsystems, TDK, Thomson, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney, Warner Bros., ...
- satanswetnipple, on 03/14/2008, -3/+14You have your opinion, I have mine. I believe DVD gives a superior image quality to BR currently. I know BR will improve with time, but for now, the image quality on the BR sets I have tested is a downgrade to DVD.
I do not get impressed with numbers. Image resolution is not the only factor since we are not dealing with still photography. The BR disks at this time are sometimes over sharpened, making pans and trucks (technical camera term) jerky and harsh. The BR players do handle dark areas better than DVD, but in full screen action, the delta compression shows, and on BR the fine detail is not enhanced, it is flattened. Watching the same movie side by side BR and DVD, the DVD shows much more fur and hair detail, as the BR compression is, for now, sub standard. The DVD is a little fuzzy around the edges, but still displays more fine detail, even with the fuzziness.
So to hell with Sony. I am not replacing my extensive library of movies for their overpriced downgrade. You can go buy anything you want, I am not stopping you, just don't assume that other people want to follow you, or that others are simple minded enough to believe your equipment is superior. - Sniper, on 03/14/2008, -4/+14I have an idea, lets blame Sony!
- EtherGnat, on 03/14/2008, -0/+10Lack of IR is a major bummer for me. I know there are half-assed workarounds, but it would be nice if there were a better way to get it to work with my Harmony remotes.
- one1plus1one, on 03/14/2008, -0/+9I think it is you Reed311 who are comparing apples and oranges -- not to mention that you are arguing with false metaphors.
Downloading a torrent is not like hotwiring a vehicle.
The act of stealing a vehicle is a physical crime. It involves break and enter (usually through a violent act of breaking glass) and then the grand theft of a large physical object, which profoundly effects a private citizen, and deprives that person of their transportation (and personal possessions that they have in their vehicle). It also often risks the lives of other people on the road, during the quick "get-away" and sometimes results in high speed police chases.
The other act, of downloading a torrent involves duplicating a virtual object, and does not deprive a private citizen of that object. Nor does it necessarily reduce profits for the private corporation who marketed that virtual object. Many downloaded torrents would not have been purchased anyways... and many downloaded torrents actually generate income in other ways.
They are two very different crimes. But nice try going up for bat, with multibillion dollar corporations. - Falldog, on 03/14/2008, -11/+20Now if someone would have the cajones to start selling HD downloads for cheap we'd see different price movement. It's not like many families can afford to send so much on a player and movies while we're starting on a downward economic slope.
- inactive, on 03/14/2008, -25/+34Awesome smart consumers! You chose $600 hd video players over $150.
- spoonard, on 03/14/2008, -3/+12Well, they come right off the Blu-Ray discs you pay for so i'm sure they go just fine.
- Tenoq, on 03/14/2008, -0/+9Dude, PowerPC chips are not an alternative to the Core 2 platform. Intel could double their prices (if there was no AMD) and the OEMs would still pay for it, because they don't have a choice. Designing their own chips also isn't a choice: I don't think you realise how difficult it would be to setup manufacturing for CPUs.
No, if AMD dies, prices WILL rise significantly. Eventually there will be a new competitor, but we will suffer for a few years in the meantime. - breckinshire, on 03/14/2008, -0/+9You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
- banmaster, on 03/14/2008, -5/+14I bought an HD player and have a good selection of movies already (and am quite happy with my purchases), and even now I've still spent a lot less than if I'd bought a bluray player by itself.
Now that Sony have complete control over the entire HD movie industry we can only expect things to get worse. - Typhoon2009, on 03/14/2008, -2/+11Scrub... I use a punch card computer.
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