Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm looking for a pair of quality headphones that aren't seemingly made of glass. I'm an avid BMXer which causes me to frequently bash on any type of technology that joins me for my daily riding. I've been through the higher quality headsets in the Skullcandy line as these are supposed to be built for "abuse," which is laughable. I cant wear earbuds or canal buds, as my large ears seem to have a repelling property upon anything that sits in them. Wired or Bluetooth doesn't really matter, but I need something that can hold up to taking a few hits every now and again. I'm trying to keep 'em under $150. Thanks!"
With the kind of feirce competition going on for BRD stand alone player sales, they may break the 200 mark with a decent player by the end of the decade.
scorching competition.
Or someone could do something really crazy and finalize the 2.0 profile, and then release a 1000 dollar player based on it. That would really fire up the market (especially with the PS3 still 2.0 ready and available for the low low price of 400 dollars).
End of the decade? Hopefully both sides will have decent players under $200 long before then.
I'm thinking more like end of 2008.
@andy
seriously...you must be f**king kidding. end of the decade? when you see that plays have gone from $700-1000 down to less than 300 in a little more than a year, what makes you think that they can't drop another 100 in this coming year alone...
@hd4me
i'm really surprised that you're really discrediting the efforts of samsung. they may not be making the best plays, but they sell a hell of a lot.
@Nfinity
i'm not sure if the only place you shop is your local wally world. but the vast majority of the stores that i go to usually have a larger blu ray section than hd dvd, usually 1.5:1 i've even seen 2:1 in terms of the amount of sections. So if you see hd dvd sold out and it has 1 section, but bluray has 3...that could be a bit of a reason. and there's another thing that you pointed out: the amount of ps2 sales compared to dvd sales over a 10+ year span. Of course you're going to find more f**king dvd players sold in the latter years, especially when you could start to pick them up for 40,30, $25. Look at the early years of the ps2 when ps2s were one of the cheapest dvd players you could get on the market. The disparity ratio was a hell of a lot smaller then. You=always flawed logic. And i seriously dont understand how you can even start to project sales 2 f**ckin years into the future, with a technology this new? are you nuts...You keep saying that hd dvd is all about standalone players, and that you can't depend on gaming console (PS3) to keep you afloat. Well, thats EXACTLY WHAT IT HAS BEEN DOING. In the time that the ps3 has sold millions of units, what has happened to the mean price of blu ray players? Ummm...i think they've dropped about $700 in a little over a year, and...started to really pick up steam in terms of units. Sorry, but anyone w/ a little less fanboyism than you would kiiiinda see the logic in that. If you can hold over GROUP A (customer willing to buy a PS3/early adopters/techie people who see the sheer value of a ps3 as a blu ray player over a sony standalone for the same price...who are actually buying a boat load movies because there are so many of them) until the price drops enough for GROUP B ("joe sixpack") to see it as a viable solution, you're doing just fine. As soon as you pick up more and more of that GROUP B...well, you'll be out of a job on engadgethd.