"When will Blu-ray players drop in price to become a mainstream product? Glasgow: If you go back to when DVDs came into play, it took about three years until they got into price points of $299 to $399. I suspect it's about the same thing here with Blu-ray. I think it's going to take up to three years to get down to those price points, possibly a little longer. But I would assume it's similar to DVD.
We have some control over (the cost of the) components. There are a lot of components in that product. Once you get volumes up, you get yields up, and you get efficiencies up; the prices go down on the components."
I really don't think it will take 3 years like DVD... electronic product cycles/improvement cycles are much faster these days than they were 20 years ago. I'd say we'll hit that pricepoint sometime in 2008. Whether it's hit by one or both formats next year, who really knows... but my humble guess would be that yes, by sometime next year we'll be seeing both formats at $299.
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From the Cnet article this blog refers to.
"When will Blu-ray players drop in price to become a mainstream product?
Glasgow: If you go back to when DVDs came into play, it took about three years until they got into price points of $299 to $399. I suspect it's about the same thing here with Blu-ray. I think it's going to take up to three years to get down to those price points, possibly a little longer. But I would assume it's similar to DVD.
We have some control over (the cost of the) components. There are a lot of components in that product. Once you get volumes up, you get yields up, and you get efficiencies up; the prices go down on the components."
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How does anyone get end of the year out of that?
I really don't think it will take 3 years like DVD... electronic product cycles/improvement cycles are much faster these days than they were 20 years ago. I'd say we'll hit that pricepoint sometime in 2008. Whether it's hit by one or both formats next year, who really knows... but my humble guess would be that yes, by sometime next year we'll be seeing both formats at $299.