I think you'll see the BD30 drop substantially when the BD50 appears. In fact I think that's a pattern you'll see in many manufacturers - a lower end 1.1 player and a more expensive 2.0 player. I expect that many 1.1 players will be $300 or less by the end of the year.
As for Sony... they have to compete in the blu ray market like everyone else. If their players suck or cost too much, people will buy another model. That's the way it should be. Its called competition.
“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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I think you'll see the BD30 drop substantially when the BD50 appears. In fact I think that's a pattern you'll see in many manufacturers - a lower end 1.1 player and a more expensive 2.0 player. I expect that many 1.1 players will be $300 or less by the end of the year.
As for Sony... they have to compete in the blu ray market like everyone else. If their players suck or cost too much, people will buy another model. That's the way it should be. Its called competition.