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In Reply to: RE: breaking the $200 barrier posted by Joe Murphy Jr on October 19, 2008 at 11:24:30
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.
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Thats exactly the problem. Disk cost. I dont mind paying more for the player, but I buy a lot of DVDs, and I am not going to pay those prices. I wont go BluRay until a must have movie comes out on it (like LOTR, or the Star Wars trilogy).
I only buy movies I really (REALLY) love. I rent the rest.
I don't have a player yet (soon) but I haven't bought a film on DVD if it was also available or coming out on BD relatively soon. Enough older movies and specialty items are coming out now on BD that the improved PQ is worth it to me.
I own three BDs: The Searchers, Master & Commander, and A Midsummer Nights Dream (Balanchine ballet). Criterion is now releasing on BD, so that's another plus in the formats favor. LOTR is probably coming out on BD in late 09 BTW. They're working on it now.
These are on my BD wish list.
400 Blows
The Third Man
Dr. Strangelove
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Walkabout
Pride And Prejudice
Taxi Driver
This Is Spinal Tap
Blade Runner Ultimate Coll.
Dark City Extended DC
Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban
The Who at Kilburn '77
Die Zauberflaute (Sir Colin Davis)
Ceilia & Bryn at Glyndbourne
IMPORTS
Children Of Men
Death At A Funeral
Seventh Seal
In My Father's Den
King Lear (RSC, McKellen, Nunn)
Dune (Lynch)
Almost Famous (Extended Ed)
Cabaret
Zulu
...500 discs that I've been gathering...I almost wrote 'collecting', but I do NOT 'collect' movies--for a decade or 2. I have about 180 HD discs, 100 HD DVDs and about 80 BDs. I just don't buy DVDs anymore if there's ANY chance the movie will be released on BD.
I've had 3 HD-disc players, 2 top-of-the-line Toshiba HD DVD players and now a Samsung 5000 multi-HD-format player, all of which play and uprez DVDs, and HD discs ALWAYS look LOTS better than DVDs, in resolution and cleanliness/viewability of dark areas, than uprezed DVDs.
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I, too, rent (from Netflix which is great)and they do have Blu-Ray now, so that's good, but interestingly enough, they just tacked $10 on the monthly fee if you want to continue renting Blu-Rays.
I'll keep getting, but I am wondering what the behind-the-scenes stuff on that pricing is all about??
CC
It is only $1/month increase (which brings it back to their original cost of $17.99 for 3 at a time)
Jack,
You're right; big misspelling on my part. A buck it is for Blu-Ray.
I still wonder why though? Bigger fees from the studios on those discs?
CC.
Yep, the discs are ridiculously priced and although I will be buying a player once the technology has evolved just a wee buit more, my watching will consist of discs hired at the local rental store where they cost exactly the same as normal DVDs to hire.
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
BDs seem to be about $10 more than their DVD counterparts, and they rarely go on sale now. With the economy the way it is these days, I don't envision a whole lot of people jumping on that bandwagon for quite a while.
Jack
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