The incentive for lowering prices should be obvious - competition. I assume that Sony, Panasonic, Phillps, Samsung, and even Toshiba would very much like if you parted with your cash and gave it to them. For that to happen they'll have to compete with each other on prices and features. As Blu Ray enters the mainstream the economies of scale kick in.
This really is no different from when DVD was starting. I don't understand why people think Blu Ray will be any different.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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The incentive for lowering prices should be obvious - competition. I assume that Sony, Panasonic, Phillps, Samsung, and even Toshiba would very much like if you parted with your cash and gave it to them. For that to happen they'll have to compete with each other on prices and features. As Blu Ray enters the mainstream the economies of scale kick in.
This really is no different from when DVD was starting. I don't understand why people think Blu Ray will be any different.