arstechnica.com— Sony announced a new Blu-ray player that will retail for $599, $400 cheaper than the model it's replacing. Of course, for the same price you get a PS3 that can also play games.
Feb 26, 2007View in Crawl 4
DVD players were the same price 8 years ago, now they can be found for under $20. And when these things are under $20, there'll be something new for $1000.
Here's my problem with Sony touting the PS3 as a blue-ray player that also plays games. I owned two different PS2s. The first eventually got so many DREs' that it became completely useless. The second I got was the slimmer, newer model of the PS2. Eventually, this one stopped playing DVDs'. Sony's customer service was then bold enough to tell me that if I play too many DVDs on the PS2, it could wear out the laser. What the f**k? You brag that this thing plays DVDs', but if you play too many it'll stop working. I have no reason to believe the same bulls**t won't happen with the PS3. I'm not buying a DVD player, I'm buying a gaming machine...which is why I plan on purchasing a 360 sometime soon.
Given the pricing for the beta-ray I'm still on hold....possibly forever if they leave it out too long. It makes no sense to purchase other than for tech fanboiz that buy it simply because it's new.... not for what it offers. Forget the (still) ridiculous price for the unit itself and compatibility issues. The price of blu-ray disks are what's primarily responsible for crippling sales.Tigerdirect today....x50 8.5GB Memorex Duel Layer DVD translates to 425GB@$60 = $0.14/GB of storagex1 320GB Seagate HD@$80 = $0.25/GB x1 25GB TDK Blu-ray disk@$14 = $0.56/Gb Unless I do massive amounts of burning of extremely large files why the heck would I pay 4 times the money for a blu-ray disk over duel layer? And twice as much for hard drives that are far superior? Economically speaking here... it's being clobbered on both the performance end and for deal factor. Only when Blu-ray is below the cost of hard drive space will I remotely consider its use (which would require the disks to sell around 3-4 dollars a pop and players around $100)
Yeah dude, in the greater hierarchy of evil organizations, they're not even in the top 5. They're still well below other groups like The Nazis, The Hillary Clinton Campaign, The KKK, Alquiada, or the RIAA.
halikFeb 27, 2007
Better yet, call me when there's a standard and the players are sold under 100 bucks...
Closed AccountFeb 27, 2007
Blu Ray is a passing fad. It died the moment <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc</a> was announced
pantagesFeb 27, 2007
except beta disks didn't outsell VHS 2:1
pantagesFeb 27, 2007
@ krymore: 16k for the player??? no thanks.. give it 10 years
Closed AccountFeb 27, 2007
DVD players were the same price 8 years ago, now they can be found for under $20. And when these things are under $20, there'll be something new for $1000.
commongigaFeb 27, 2007
Here's my problem with Sony touting the PS3 as a blue-ray player that also plays games. I owned two different PS2s. The first eventually got so many DREs' that it became completely useless. The second I got was the slimmer, newer model of the PS2. Eventually, this one stopped playing DVDs'. Sony's customer service was then bold enough to tell me that if I play too many DVDs on the PS2, it could wear out the laser. What the f**k? You brag that this thing plays DVDs', but if you play too many it'll stop working. I have no reason to believe the same bulls**t won't happen with the PS3. I'm not buying a DVD player, I'm buying a gaming machine...which is why I plan on purchasing a 360 sometime soon.
thereFeb 27, 2007
Given the pricing for the beta-ray I'm still on hold....possibly forever if they leave it out too long. It makes no sense to purchase other than for tech fanboiz that buy it simply because it's new.... not for what it offers. Forget the (still) ridiculous price for the unit itself and compatibility issues. The price of blu-ray disks are what's primarily responsible for crippling sales.Tigerdirect today....x50 8.5GB Memorex Duel Layer DVD translates to 425GB@$60 = $0.14/GB of storagex1 320GB Seagate HD@$80 = $0.25/GB x1 25GB TDK Blu-ray disk@$14 = $0.56/Gb Unless I do massive amounts of burning of extremely large files why the heck would I pay 4 times the money for a blu-ray disk over duel layer? And twice as much for hard drives that are far superior? Economically speaking here... it's being clobbered on both the performance end and for deal factor. Only when Blu-ray is below the cost of hard drive space will I remotely consider its use (which would require the disks to sell around 3-4 dollars a pop and players around $100)
vlatroFeb 27, 2007
Yeah dude, in the greater hierarchy of evil organizations, they're not even in the top 5. They're still well below other groups like The Nazis, The Hillary Clinton Campaign, The KKK, Alquiada, or the RIAA.