Holiday season is approach so I expect you'll see the first discounting happen quite soon. I expect the Funai players will be as low as $200 for Christmas.
Yeah, but who wants a Funai? We really need a fully-spec'd name-brand player around the $200 mark. Something that can at least bitstream all formats, has bd-live, but doesn't need to have a Reon or anything super special. The Funai players need to be $100 and then you'll see people adopting that never would have before. But who wants to spend $400-500 on a player that will be half that price with better performance 6 months to a year from now?
The Funai can bitstream, not that it matters to the vast majority of people who will hook up their player straight to a TV with no receiver. But if you want brand name, then Sony are rumoured to be dropping their MSRP at the end of September from $399 to $299 for the S350 so I expect it will selling for a little less than that.
It seems likely the S350 will be $300 MSRP and the Funai models $250 MSRP from late September. I'm sure that means other models will also get price cuts.
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Holiday season is approach so I expect you'll see the first discounting happen quite soon. I expect the Funai players will be as low as $200 for Christmas.
Yeah, but who wants a Funai? We really need a fully-spec'd name-brand player around the $200 mark. Something that can at least bitstream all formats, has bd-live, but doesn't need to have a Reon or anything super special. The Funai players need to be $100 and then you'll see people adopting that never would have before. But who wants to spend $400-500 on a player that will be half that price with better performance 6 months to a year from now?
The Funai can bitstream, not that it matters to the vast majority of people who will hook up their player straight to a TV with no receiver. But if you want brand name, then Sony are rumoured to be dropping their MSRP at the end of September from $399 to $299 for the S350 so I expect it will selling for a little less than that.
Best Buy has the Funai for $250 now. Prices are starting to drop :)
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8777344&type=product&id=1204332499513
A link concerning Sept price drops:
http://hdguru.com/sony-to-drop-blu-ray-player-pricing-in-september-other-makers-to-follow/263/
It seems likely the S350 will be $300 MSRP and the Funai models $250 MSRP from late September. I'm sure that means other models will also get price cuts.