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In Reply to: $349 for the A20. nt posted by Duilawyer on August 22, 2007 at 18:31:50:
1: There's no A20 available in Australia. As far as I know it has never been released here.
2: We have 3 models available from Toshiba. They are the HE-E1 which is $899 Aus (=$728 US), the HP-E10 which is $1099 Aus (=$890 US), and the HE-XE1 which is $1599 Aus (=$1295 US). Those conversions are based on an exchange rate where the Australian dollar = $0.81 US which is roughly what the Australian dollar is worth today. If the Australian dollar goes back up against the US dollar, Toshiba's prices aren't going to come down and the comparison gets even worse.
3: Note that the cheapest Toshiba player in Australia is over twice the price of the A20 in the US.
I doubt we'll see anything significantly cheaper from Toshiba here anytime soon. Oscar's talking rumours of players for US $200 by Christmas. There's probably no hope of Toshiba having a player available in Australia for the equivalent of $600 US by Christmas.
I have to repeat: what price drops? They certainly don't exist where I live and, as I said, there's only around $80 US difference between the cheapest HD-DVD player (the E1) and the cheapest Blu-ray player (the PS3) available here in Australia. HD-DVD is a rip-off here when you compare the prices above to the prices you're quoting.
David Aiken
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