Oh oh, things must be worse then I thought. They must be desperate doing this really. Sending discs to China, the capital of piracy, something they fought so vigorously to prevent.
This might be their last hope at larger quantity sales and in order to push larger scale production capacities and to lower costs. Of course we all know that Chinese will completely rip every movie and sell it for 3 bucks on the street in Asia and Europe in full 1080p but Sony obviously thinks that won't happen.
I am failing to understand this company, it constantly continues going against consumer. They pull and do what they can to prevent people from watching any HD movies they have influence on that only hurts them in the long run and then turns around and sells Blu-ray discs in China.
I really can't see their overall strategy. I really can't, are they so ignorant or just don't care.
It may be an attempt to prevent any support for the rival CBHD system. If everything out there's Blu-ray or compatible with most Blu-ray players (AVCHD), then CBHD doesn't stand much of a chance. So it's in Sony's interest to put out Blu-ray discs even if it increases piracy, in the longer run it'll get all Chinese industry singing from the same hymn sheet.
Retail in Denmark is something like 60$ A good price is something like 40$ On sale is around 30$
On top of that the packaging is worse, very few titles with BD Live and none with the "Digital Copy" feature like on US titles and btw. I paid something 1100$ for my Panasonic BD-50 player.
Next time I hear someone in US complain about high prices I am gonna puke.
I wonder if someone claimed "desperation" when studios started selling legit DVDs in China. I sure hope not because it wouldn't make any sense at all. And it doesn't this time either.
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Oh oh, things must be worse then I thought. They must be desperate doing this really. Sending discs to China, the capital of piracy, something they fought so vigorously to prevent.
This might be their last hope at larger quantity sales and in order to push larger scale production capacities and to lower costs. Of course we all know that Chinese will completely rip every movie and sell it for 3 bucks on the street in Asia and Europe in full 1080p but Sony obviously thinks that won't happen.
I am failing to understand this company, it constantly continues going against consumer. They pull and do what they can to prevent people from watching any HD movies they have influence on that only hurts them in the long run and then turns around and sells Blu-ray discs in China.
I really can't see their overall strategy. I really can't, are they so ignorant or just don't care.
It may be an attempt to prevent any support for the rival CBHD system. If everything out there's Blu-ray or compatible with most Blu-ray players (AVCHD), then CBHD doesn't stand much of a chance. So it's in Sony's interest to put out Blu-ray discs even if it increases piracy, in the longer run it'll get all Chinese industry singing from the same hymn sheet.
3$ in Europe? You gotta be kindding.
Retail in Denmark is something like 60$
A good price is something like 40$
On sale is around 30$
On top of that the packaging is worse, very few titles with BD Live and none with the "Digital Copy" feature like on US titles and btw. I paid something 1100$ for my Panasonic BD-50 player.
Next time I hear someone in US complain about high prices I am gonna puke.
I wonder if someone claimed "desperation" when studios started selling legit DVDs in China. I sure hope not because it wouldn't make any sense at all. And it doesn't this time either.