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RE: HD DVD's only winning strategy is soliciting mass market acceptance based on "cheap" hardware.

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Jack G

In Reply to: RE: HD DVD's only winning strategy is soliciting mass market acceptance based on "cheap" hardware. posted by oscar on September 17, 2007 at 18:25:52

Actually, the bottom of the line HD DVD players offer quite a few features-one of the advantage of a standardized format. Both Wally World and Best Buy have placed orders for OEM $199 players. In Q4, there will be 5 manufacturers of HD DVD players, not just Toshiba. There will be a range of players from $199 to over $1000, all of which will do things that BD has only promised.
Jack

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I must be behind the times; you have a source or are these rumors ? nt - oscar 05:18:07 09/18/07 (3)
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- Which part? - Jack G 05:42:37 09/18/07 (2)
  The 5 manufacturers is from CEDIA.
  
  The WM/BB is from a Japanese interview with Amir, not an official press release take it for what its worth.
  Direct translation:
  "In addition, in the conference of IFA, "Venturer" of the Chinese enterprise announced the player of pricelow. The OEM is received, Walmart and BESTBUY, with the respective company brand sell the HD DVD player for 199 dollars. In comparison with the BD player, directly it has become cheap."
  
  Jack
  - Needs bablefish (Open in New Window)
  - Wal mart denied they were carrying Venturer (a ploy?), Amir's a PR person, - oscar 06:07:10 09/18/07 (1)
    And Toshiba/Onkyo/Integra doesn't carry quite the same weight as Pioneer/Panasonic/Sharp/Phillips/Denon. An interesting side question: Does name brand really mean anything anymore ?
    
    Toshiba is trying to reach out to the mass market; it'll be interesting to see how well the "mass market" will respond to definitely high software and still high hardware costs on a format arguably no better than upsampling DVD players with mediocre and/or smaillish HDTVs.
    - They denied placing a HUGE order at the time - Jack G 06:44:47 09/18/07 (0)
      kind of like Sony denying that there would be a price drop in the PS3.
      Amir does do a bit of PR, but he seems to be right more often than not.
      Price IS the biggest obsticle. We'll see if people are interested in HD if the price drops.
      I've said it before, that its quite possible the masses won't buy into HD at all, in which case both will be niche products.
      Jack

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