Thursday, February 21, 2008
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January 2008
January 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23262620/
I have been reading your guys post. Couple months ago I purchased a HDDVD player and was absolutely pleased with price / performance. Happy feet and King kong were the first movies my wife & i Watched. I was sold, more importantly she was. It also upconverted sdvds Ratatouille and most other animation & movies beautifully. Well anyways, It will be used as a dvd player and whatever hddvds i can purchase.
Since all the news went down about how "consumers" chose br i decided to start looking and educating myself on whats out there. All I can say is DAMN!! it is going to be expensive for a 1.0 player.I have a PC for gaming so There is no way i will buy a game console just to play a movie especially a PS3.
As the article states "Even at $400, that’s about twice the price most consumers are comfortable with — the “I-don’t-have-to-ask-my-wife’s-permission” number of around $200 " So for me i at this price point I have to wait , my dvds on this HDDVD player are looking better than ever these days. I just thought you guys might find the above article interesting...Take care
[Post edited by patchman on Feb 21, 2008]
I have been reading your guys post. Couple months ago I purchased a HDDVD player and was absolutely pleased with price / performance. Happy feet and King kong were the first movies my wife & i Watched. I was sold, more importantly she was. It also upconverted sdvds Ratatouille and most other animation & movies beautifully. Well anyways, It will be used as a dvd player and whatever hddvds i can purchase.
Since all the news went down about how "consumers" chose br i decided to start looking and educating myself on whats out there. All I can say is DAMN!! it is going to be expensive for a 1.0 player.I have a PC for gaming so There is no way i will buy a game console just to play a movie especially a PS3.
As the article states "Even at $400, that’s about twice the price most consumers are comfortable with — the “I-don’t-have-to-ask-my-wife’s-permission” number of around $200 " So for me i at this price point I have to wait , my dvds on this HDDVD player are looking better than ever these days. I just thought you guys might find the above article interesting...Take care
[Post edited by patchman on Feb 21, 2008]
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Member since:
February 2008
February 2008
Why would you buy a 1.0 player to begin with? Not all 1.0 players can be upgraded. And by the time 2.0 players are common and down to a sub-$250 price range, HD VoD will be more common and likely more viable than expensive Blu-Ray players. Blu-Ray has quite a battle ahead of itself now with SD DVD and HD VoD to deal with.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Member since:
January 2008
January 2008
Spoonard,
Thanx for the info. I mentioned the 1.0 because thats what was being sold to me for that price unless i went with a console. I just found it unbelievable to pay that much for something that is not "finished" So i will not be buying a player any time soon. I read the news article which opened my eyes on the whole format .....not ready yet. It just seemed like i was going backwards when i started looking at BR players. ......
Thanx once again....
Thanx for the info. I mentioned the 1.0 because thats what was being sold to me for that price unless i went with a console. I just found it unbelievable to pay that much for something that is not "finished" So i will not be buying a player any time soon. I read the news article which opened my eyes on the whole format .....not ready yet. It just seemed like i was going backwards when i started looking at BR players. ......
Thanx once again....
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Member since:
January 2008
January 2008
Quote:
Not all 1.0 players can be upgraded. And by the time 2.0 players are common and down to a sub-$250 price range, HD VoD will be more common and likely more viable than expensive Blu-Ray players
All I can say is WOW!!!
I am one of those fortunate Verizon FiOS customers, with a real Fiber Optic Feed up to within 6 feet of me as I write this...
I will seriously be scaling back my HD DVD acquisitions if studios stop releasing on HD DVD, and will only rent occasional Blu titles, with no chance of actually buying any of them.
Netflix, canceled. Blockbuster, sorry too.
Got my kids a P$3 for Christmas, and I just boxed it up for it's second trip to the repair shop.
Just leave it turned on for more than 3-4 hours and the Blu drive burns out, leaving the P$3 blind again.
With more than 5 TB of PC drive space available so far, I will be buying HD downloads instead of Optical Discs shortly.
What was this "Format War", I must have missed something.
Probably some insignificant drivel, glad I missed out on it...
No reason to support some Blu-Game format that is intended for kids instead of real HD movies.
$ony can have their P$3 Game Console, it was never a legitimate movie machine to begin with...
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Member since:
June 2006
June 2006
I mentioned this in another thread, but I'll repeat it here:
Since the Toshiba announcement, I've been following the Panasonic BD30K on Amazon. Before the announcement, it was $411 directly from Amazon, free shipping w/Prime. Today the cheapest from a third party vendor is $495 plus $14 shipping. I think the cheapest was $549 yesterday.
I should have jumped when it was $411, but on the other hand, I'm reluctant to buy until BD gets their hardware issues resolved for good. (the Panasonic is nearly there I think) I don't think these prices are going down any time soon because I believe some vendors want to milk the price for all they can get until probably this Christmas season. After all, there is no competition anymore. Yes the market will ultimately determine the price points, but not for a while. I would LOVE to see Sony, et. al., be forced to pull a Toshiba to lower the price of their sa players below cost in order to move them. Now, that would be poetic justice!
Since the Toshiba announcement, I've been following the Panasonic BD30K on Amazon. Before the announcement, it was $411 directly from Amazon, free shipping w/Prime. Today the cheapest from a third party vendor is $495 plus $14 shipping. I think the cheapest was $549 yesterday.
I should have jumped when it was $411, but on the other hand, I'm reluctant to buy until BD gets their hardware issues resolved for good. (the Panasonic is nearly there I think) I don't think these prices are going down any time soon because I believe some vendors want to milk the price for all they can get until probably this Christmas season. After all, there is no competition anymore. Yes the market will ultimately determine the price points, but not for a while. I would LOVE to see Sony, et. al., be forced to pull a Toshiba to lower the price of their sa players below cost in order to move them. Now, that would be poetic justice!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Member since:
October 2007
October 2007
I tried to read this article, but I hit the pause button as soon as I saw the name "Rob Enderle"
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Member since:
January 2008
January 2008
Yeah, I still don't get fibre until next year... 
I'm still getting 18Mbs to the door, with one HD STB and a Regular STB, and about 4Mbs for internet, but it's no fibre! It is still quicker than cable. Hey on your fibre, how long does it take to download a movie?
I'm still getting 18Mbs to the door, with one HD STB and a Regular STB, and about 4Mbs for internet, but it's no fibre! It is still quicker than cable. Hey on your fibre, how long does it take to download a movie?
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Member since:
May 2007
May 2007
Quote:
I tried to read this article, but I hit the pause button as soon as I saw the name "Rob Enderle"
I hit pause the moment I saw "msnbc" in the link!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Member since:
January 2008
January 2008
I just bought We Were Soldiers, Serenity, Sky Captain, Tomb Raider, Sleepy Hollow and Blade Runner Ultimate Edition, all on HD-DVD. WOW. Awesome quality with the newer movies. Absolutely beautiful. 
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Member since:
January 2008
January 2008
A lot of people think that now there is one format to choose from, the prices have to go down, I disagree. If the prices were at $400+ when the war was going on and each one trying to outdo the other, then without any competition, there's no need to drop prices.
