Bla bla bla.. $400 for an underpowered, overpriced piece of Sony fanboy nonsense. Ha HA stupid consumers are getting at their wits end with terrible choices. . . bla bla... no one will buy this and bluboys will cry as their precious format dies
...Written for Nfinity. So he can take the day off...
The problem is ... its true. Everyone whined about wanting the format war to end and they got what they wanted. Now, instead of $100 hi-def players everywhere, we have breaking news of another $400 unit. These prices are keeping the hi-def saturation at a limited 7% ... thats horrible.
Its pathetic to see these prices still 4X what HDDVD already had out almost a year ago ... Sony's response to price wars have been to offer rebates on the PS3 through the credit card services, etc.
Now they're offering rebate programs to temporarily lower disc prices over the holidays. They're not willing to lower the price bar because they know they can't raise it ... so they use these rebate programs to simply lure the lemmings to cliff edge.
Sony's standalone Blu-ray player MSRPs have gone from $1,000 to $600 to $400. They might not be dropping as fast as people would like, but they're coming down.
Still shocking that my Ps3 cost $400.... last year.... it's a great BD player that can update it's profile whenever. The only caveat being it's a big, shiny, ugly piece of gear.
@ScareyJ "Now, instead of $100 hi-def players everywhere, we have breaking news of another $400 unit."
There is no rational reason to expect that had HD-DVD won the format war, we'd see $100 players now. The only reason HD-DVD players ever hit that price point was because they weren't selling at $200 or $300 and were getting outsold by blu-ray players that cost $200 or more.
"Its pathetic to see these prices still 4X what HDDVD already had out almost a year ago"
December 2007 was not "almost a year ago"- it was a 1 day promotion with Walmart or a Black Friday sale with Best Buy. June/July 2007, the HD-A2 was $350, and the HD-A20 was $450 while Blu-ray players had just hit the $500 price point in Sony's BDP-S300. Toshiba had a $100 rebate on some of their models (I think just the A2) and by the end of July, they had trimmed the price permanently of the HD-A2 down to $250.
I mention the A20 because it seems a bit unfair to me to compare a 1080i player with a 1080p player, and the A2 & A20 do not decode DTS-HD MA at all, whereas this Sony player does.
@ScareyJ, HD DVD players only sold for $100 to clear them out of the warehouses. The format had already lost by that point and everyone from retailers to Toshiba wanted to get rid of them as fast as possible. The MSRP for the A3 was $299. Slashing $200 off the price certainly wouldn't have happened if HD DVD had won the war. Instead we'd be talking about the abundance of $100 Blu Ray players and your opposite number in the Blu camp would probably be making the same vacuous argument.
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Bla bla bla.. $400 for an underpowered, overpriced piece of Sony fanboy nonsense. Ha HA stupid consumers are getting at their wits end with terrible choices. . . bla bla... no one will buy this and bluboys will cry as their precious format dies
...Written for Nfinity. So he can take the day off...
Not sure to mark you - for being a D-bag, or + for doing a danm fine impression of nfinity.
The problem is ... its true. Everyone whined about wanting the format war to end and they got what they wanted. Now, instead of $100 hi-def players everywhere, we have breaking news of another $400 unit. These prices are keeping the hi-def saturation at a limited 7% ... thats horrible.
Its pathetic to see these prices still 4X what HDDVD already had out almost a year ago ... Sony's response to price wars have been to offer rebates on the PS3 through the credit card services, etc.
Now they're offering rebate programs to temporarily lower disc prices over the holidays. They're not willing to lower the price bar because they know they can't raise it ... so they use these rebate programs to simply lure the lemmings to cliff edge.
Sony's standalone Blu-ray player MSRPs have gone from $1,000 to $600 to $400. They might not be dropping as fast as people would like, but they're coming down.
Still shocking that my Ps3 cost $400.... last year.... it's a great BD player that can update it's profile whenever. The only caveat being it's a big, shiny, ugly piece of gear.
A standalone should cost A LOT FREAKING LESS.
@ScareyJ "Now, instead of $100 hi-def players everywhere, we have breaking news of another $400 unit."
There is no rational reason to expect that had HD-DVD won the format war, we'd see $100 players now. The only reason HD-DVD players ever hit that price point was because they weren't selling at $200 or $300 and were getting outsold by blu-ray players that cost $200 or more.
"Its pathetic to see these prices still 4X what HDDVD already had out almost a year ago"
December 2007 was not "almost a year ago"- it was a 1 day promotion with Walmart or a Black Friday sale with Best Buy. June/July 2007, the HD-A2 was $350, and the HD-A20 was $450 while Blu-ray players had just hit the $500 price point in Sony's BDP-S300. Toshiba had a $100 rebate on some of their models (I think just the A2) and by the end of July, they had trimmed the price permanently of the HD-A2 down to $250.
I mention the A20 because it seems a bit unfair to me to compare a 1080i player with a 1080p player, and the A2 & A20 do not decode DTS-HD MA at all, whereas this Sony player does.
@nfinity
"LOL"? What's that supposed to mean? Did you run out of keyboard?
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@ScareyJ, HD DVD players only sold for $100 to clear them out of the warehouses. The format had already lost by that point and everyone from retailers to Toshiba wanted to get rid of them as fast as possible. The MSRP for the A3 was $299. Slashing $200 off the price certainly wouldn't have happened if HD DVD had won the war. Instead we'd be talking about the abundance of $100 Blu Ray players and your opposite number in the Blu camp would probably be making the same vacuous argument.