While you are certainly entitled to expressing your personal opinion about how BD will fare as a format, how about waiting until the holiday season ends and then seeing how BD actually did. You might certainly be right, but for all the predictions we throw out, you don't know until you know, you know?
Personally, I think that CE manufatures are pricing their players right for this holiday season. $200 to $250 for a name brand player is about right for BD's lifespan as a format. It may not move massive quantities of players, but it will begin to secure a piece of the movie player market. The true test is movie prices, and how willing studios will be to lower their prices.
The economy, despite what some may think, IS a big factor in how this holiday goes overall. Retailers are very worried about it already, so it's pretty much guaranteed that retail sales will be lower (significantly) than in previous years. So that is not good for BD (or any other tech for that matter).
Overall, I feel BD will see some success after the holiday, enough to encourage studios and CE corps to continue supporting it well into 2009.
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While you are certainly entitled to expressing your personal opinion about how BD will fare as a format, how about waiting until the holiday season ends and then seeing how BD actually did. You might certainly be right, but for all the predictions we throw out, you don't know until you know, you know?
Personally, I think that CE manufatures are pricing their players right for this holiday season. $200 to $250 for a name brand player is about right for BD's lifespan as a format. It may not move massive quantities of players, but it will begin to secure a piece of the movie player market. The true test is movie prices, and how willing studios will be to lower their prices.
The economy, despite what some may think, IS a big factor in how this holiday goes overall. Retailers are very worried about it already, so it's pretty much guaranteed that retail sales will be lower (significantly) than in previous years. So that is not good for BD (or any other tech for that matter).
Overall, I feel BD will see some success after the holiday, enough to encourage studios and CE corps to continue supporting it well into 2009.