Only idiots can read anything into this. A mid-range Denon DVD player is $850! Maybe a $750 BR player is a good deal on planet Denon? To bitch about high BR prices from premium CE manufacturers is pure idiotcy - but then you got to look at the commenters on this thread...
Denon, Marantz, Pioneer are traditionally expensive kit. Complaining that a Denon player is $750 is just stupid. It might be a crappy player for all anyone knows, but it's still Denon, i.e. expensive.
As for players in general, there will be players as low as $200 by Christmas and brand names occupying the $250-$350 region. As astounding as it may seem, virtually all the deals and price cuts happen in the bottom half of the year. Amazing but true.
But please Gus & Nfinity, please rant away some more. It will make you look all the more foolish in 2 or 3 months when the prices predictably and obviously start to drop again.
Denon USED to be high end, they cater and sell more to the low end Best Buy specials and such. Pioneer was never high end, they just priced their Elite units as such. Marantz has always been high end, period.
Either way, a 1.1 player that doesn't support all the audio formats is dead int he water *today*, let alone October? By then we should be seeing 2.0 players that have more bells and whistles than a PS3 used as a player.
Xym, you continually, post after post, quote imminent price drops, predictions of massive sales spikes, etc, etc, but not once have you supplied a link stating facts. Instead of continuously waffling on about what YOU THINK MIGHT happen, how about some facts, or at least quote that in your opinion 'X" might happen, instead of continuously spouting shit and trying to convince everyone it is fact!
Gus, actually dimbulb I have cited the DVD player sales figures going back to launch multiple times demonstrating that player sales increase 2-5x in the latter half of the year. Here it is again for you to pretend it doesn't exist or matter.
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Only idiots can read anything into this. A mid-range Denon DVD player is $850! Maybe a $750 BR player is a good deal on planet Denon? To bitch about high BR prices from premium CE manufacturers is pure idiotcy - but then you got to look at the commenters on this thread...
We are talking about prices in general, but I guess that was above your intelligence level to work that out, moron.
Denon, Marantz, Pioneer are traditionally expensive kit. Complaining that a Denon player is $750 is just stupid. It might be a crappy player for all anyone knows, but it's still Denon, i.e. expensive.
As for players in general, there will be players as low as $200 by Christmas and brand names occupying the $250-$350 region. As astounding as it may seem, virtually all the deals and price cuts happen in the bottom half of the year. Amazing but true.
But please Gus & Nfinity, please rant away some more. It will make you look all the more foolish in 2 or 3 months when the prices predictably and obviously start to drop again.
Denon USED to be high end, they cater and sell more to the low end Best Buy specials and such. Pioneer was never high end, they just priced their Elite units as such. Marantz has always been high end, period.
Either way, a 1.1 player that doesn't support all the audio formats is dead int he water *today*, let alone October? By then we should be seeing 2.0 players that have more bells and whistles than a PS3 used as a player.
These players need to get down to $150 pronto.
Xym, you continually, post after post, quote imminent price drops, predictions of massive sales spikes, etc, etc, but not once have you supplied a link stating facts.
Instead of continuously waffling on about what YOU THINK MIGHT happen, how about some facts, or at least quote that in your opinion 'X" might happen, instead of continuously spouting shit and trying to convince everyone it is fact!
Gus, actually dimbulb I have cited the DVD player sales figures going back to launch multiple times demonstrating that player sales increase 2-5x in the latter half of the year. Here it is again for you to pretend it doesn't exist or matter.
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/cemadvdsales.html
Of course you shouldn't even need a chart to figure this out. It should be obvious people do not spend much between January and May.