Blu-ray Players for $200 ‘Widely Expected’ by the Holiday Season

An increase in the number of chip building for Blu-ray seems destined to speed up chip commoditization and price declines, and consumers will be the winners. Ken Lowe, vice president of strategic marketing at Sigma Designs, said it’s widely expected that new Blu-ray players from China and Taiwan will be in stores at prices near $200 in time for Christmas.

http://formatwarcentral.com/index.php/2008/02/27/blu-ray-players-for-200-widely-expected-by-the-holiday-season/

I just hope they have at least profile 2.0, Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD, etc at that price. There's no reason to expect otherwise.

falcon to call your hope futile is more than stating the obvious. This sounds more in line with a new profile coming out and a lowering of the "inferior" profiles to 200.
Which, by all means sounds bad for the market as a whole, imo. A lot of companies eat a lot of cost to produce BR players. I don't think Sony is really able to undercut them like the way it sounds.

[Post edited by theprof00 on Feb 28, 2008]

Not widely expected by anyone in THIS reality. Maybe you'll get some nice Profile 1.0 players for $200. But why would you expect anything more than that?

STILL EXPENSIVE.

For 200 bucks, some (not all...the price is STILL too high) Joe6Packs will buy a less then 2.0 player and not even know the difference. The real question is, what will full featured players cost this Christmas? (Like the Oppo perhaps). There should be some new products coming out by the end of the summer, then the picture will become a little clearer.

Xplay, $200 is NOT expensive for a hidef player. As long as it works as advertised that's a great price IMO.

This is the BEST Blu Ray news I have heard since I got into this format war. I will be in the market for one if it is 2.0 and 200.00.

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Not widely expected by anyone in THIS reality. Maybe you'll get some nice Profile 1.0 players for $200. But why would you expect anything more than that?

BINGOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Lets make a bet guys, that maybe if there are players that cheap, it'll be the 1.0 and the others would be at the very least 350

You're probably right Kuco but you shouldn't have to pay $350 for a fully functional bluray player. Is the hardware REALLY that expensive to make? Especially with all this talk about the prices of the blue diodes dropping and chips going down in prices etc.

Maybe for boxing day they will be reasonable.

[Post edited by Falcon01 on Feb 28, 2008]

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Lets make a bet guys, that maybe if there are players that cheap, it'll be the 1.0

All new Blu-ray models introduced since October of last year must be at least profile 1.1.