"A 10:1 + advantage in players equates to a paltry 1.56:1 advantage in movie disc sales!?"
See, this very, very, very, very, very, very, old argument makes some big assumptions: That standalone blu ray players don't have an equal attach rate. The PS3 is going to have a horrid "movie" attach rate as I'm sure the PS2 did for DVD. Yet, I'm sure even you can credit the PS3 with the Blu lead.
Another assumption is that Blu CEs are spending much more on player manufacturing. It's the same tech buddy with a different aperture size. Don't you find it funny that Blu Ray players come down in price exactly when HD DVD players do? They don't come down to the same price, but they don't have to...they maintain that 1.2:1-3:1 lead. Why subsidize when you don't have to?
The last assumption I'll mention is similar to the last. You assume that Toshiba is making those players with dirt cheap parts. Notice that most of their players remain above $199 and even the vaunted "Chinese" player is above $150. I've heard the price argument for the entire year...but yet Blu remains ahead.
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"A 10:1 + advantage in players equates to a paltry 1.56:1 advantage in movie disc sales!?"
See, this very, very, very, very, very, very, old argument makes some big assumptions: That standalone blu ray players don't have an equal attach rate. The PS3 is going to have a horrid "movie" attach rate as I'm sure the PS2 did for DVD. Yet, I'm sure even you can credit the PS3 with the Blu lead.
Another assumption is that Blu CEs are spending much more on player manufacturing. It's the same tech buddy with a different aperture size. Don't you find it funny that Blu Ray players come down in price exactly when HD DVD players do? They don't come down to the same price, but they don't have to...they maintain that 1.2:1-3:1 lead. Why subsidize when you don't have to?
The last assumption I'll mention is similar to the last. You assume that Toshiba is making those players with dirt cheap parts. Notice that most of their players remain above $199 and even the vaunted "Chinese" player is above $150. I've heard the price argument for the entire year...but yet Blu remains ahead.