I'm with DRXYM, he is right. The prices start high in new products and as things progress, ie they sell more units, find ways to make parts cheaper... the prices fall and come more affordable. Happened with CD players in the 1980's. Happened with the first Hi-Fi VHS VCRs. Recently with regular DVD players in the late '90s which were quite pricey to start with and of course HDTV's which if you just go back a mear 3 years from now were quite a bit more money. Toshiba lost millions subsidizing each HD-DVD player and to what end? By the fall of 2009 you see quite a few 2.0 profile Blu-ray players that are affordable.
“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'm with DRXYM, he is right. The prices start high in new products and as things progress, ie they sell more units, find ways to make parts cheaper... the prices fall
and come more affordable. Happened with CD players in the 1980's. Happened with the first Hi-Fi VHS VCRs. Recently with regular DVD players in the late '90s which were quite pricey to start with and of course HDTV's which if you just go back a mear 3 years from now were quite a bit more money. Toshiba lost millions subsidizing each HD-DVD player and to what end?
By the fall of 2009 you see quite a few 2.0 profile Blu-ray players that are affordable.