Toshiba boss: Company not going Blu
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Onyxx
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View profile »Anyways, I think we will not hear from Toshiba for quite some time again. They may announce ground breaking breakthroughs on those other technologies, but I have a feeling it will be two years or more before a Blu-Ray deck comes out. Reason why, 90% of the market is still on DVD. Blu-Ray may be the Winner today, but over 240 million alone still own DVD, and there are only 9 million BR users. HD may or may not grow as quickly as they had hoped...
If anything, the next generation Upconversion DVD players are going to be revolutionary...
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View profile »The rose petals fall,
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View profile »That brings up a good point... Toshiba could just say, "Why go Blu-Ray, try OUR Up-Converting DVD Player!" After all, what consumer wants to keep buying the same movies over and over again? The reality is that for many Blu-Ray would be relegated to new movie releases only and many might just say, "Hey, I'm not paying $25 - $30 for the BD version when the DVD is only $14 and my Toshiba Up-Convert works perfectly fine".
Could Toshiba stop the adoption of Blu-Ray with this approach? Nope, but they could significantly slow the media adoption if their player is cheap enough.
Skyhawk
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View profile »The market is already flooded with less than $100 standard DVD upconverting players. They are commodities. The DVD market has been diminishing. Toshiba may say they don't have plans to get into the Blu market right now, but I can't see how they could avoid not doing so eventually.
And why would you, or Toshiba for that matter, want to slow down high definition media adoption? Besides, you nor Toshiba can. Technological progress and its consumer adoption moves forward - not backward. Whether they make it public or not, it's in Toshiba's best interest to get on the Blu-wagon now and come out with a cheaper alternative.
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View profile »It will be in the best interests of all partys for toshiba to get in on blu. I personally would love to see toshiba enter in with a player of their own.
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