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Disk cost is killing Blu Ray

Posted by DavidLD on October 20, 2008 at 04:14:52:
Most of my DVD collection that focuses on older films was purchased at deep discount to list prices. I'm not going tospend $30 for only marginalimprovements in clarity.
The cost of the player isnt stopping me. But, I often lend disks and no one else would have a player anyway.

I'm seeing list on Sony and Samsung players now at $299 with often $50 off of list, so prices have come down at least $100.

Would it work better if players were available at below cost,say $100, like the printer people did to sell ink cartridges?
good question.

But people who believe they get pretty good quality from a $30 player and a $5 disk arent about to spend a lot more. and Blu Ray remains a "niche" market for only a subset of videophiles like some of the gang here.