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I believe the CE manufacturers understand the pricing issues.

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In Reply to: RE: A fair assessment for sure, but he misses one important fact: posted by Audiophilander on January 05, 2008 at 01:44:59

And the $98 firesales probably reinforced the principle: inexpensive = sales. Toshiba's advantage was they were quicker to bring economies of scales to their HD DVD players quicker than any of the BDA manufacturers. This was a temporary advantage, perhaps augmented by loss/low profit pricing strategies in an attempt to steal the market. There was a surge in Sony Blu-ray SA player sales when they dropped to $300. At the moment, there is actually price parity between the lowest priced Sonys and the Toshibas in the B&Ms I've visited recently.
CES 2008 will be interesting to see what new profile 1.1/2.0 Blu-ray players will be released. Will we see the "cheap" Funai players ? I will admit I suspect the BDA new player MSRPs are being "massaged" (i.e. increased) after the fallout from the Warner decision. CE manufacturer competition and economies of scale will probably lead to sub-$100 Blu-ray players, maybe even by Christmas 2008.
BTW, I almost bought a PS3 to watch movies, not play games. The PQ was stellar. There are quite a few PS3 owners who use it strictly for movie watching. It's arguably still the most capable Blu-ray player out there. I needed the 5.1 analog outputs so I went with a different player.

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"There are quite a few PS3 owners who use it strictly for movie watching." - I'd like to see actual figures. - Audiophilander 12:21:58 01/05/08 (2)
In other words, I'm suggesting that the vast majority of PS3 game platforms will ONLY be used for the primary function that they were designed.
> > > "And the $98 firesales probably reinforced the principle: inexpensive = sales. Toshiba's advantage was they were quicker to bring economies of scales to their HD DVD players quicker than any of the BDA manufacturers. This was a temporary advantage, perhaps augmented by loss/low profit pricing strategies in an attempt to steal the market. There was a surge in Sony Blu-ray SA player sales when they dropped to $300. At the moment, there is actually price parity between the lowest priced Sonys and the Toshibas in the B&Ms I've visited recently." < < <
My point is that folks who bought the new HD players over the holidays probably thought that their purchase was going to be supported in the near term (at least for a couple of years down the line) by both manufacturers and product providers. Warner's rationale and belated announcement to "go Blue" after the holiday 'fire' sales may backfire for Blu-ray, and only serve to reinforce the publics distrust.
AuPh

Edits: 01/05/08
- About 80% use PS3 for movies - Ole Lund Christensen 15:04:22 01/05/08 (1)
  About the same percentage have a HDTV for their PS3. The rest plan to get HDTV.
  Why buy a HD game console for a normal TV?
  
  see link
  - http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/ps3-celebrates-its-first-birthday-56-million-sold/18572/?ncid=AOLGAM000500000000016 (Open in New Window)
  - Well I'll take the article at face value, but that number seems conspicuously high. - Audiophilander 22:48:04 01/05/08 (0)
    I would've been surprised at 50%, but 80% seems a trifle suspicious.
    
    Cheers,
    AuPh

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