No competition is causing premium prices everywhere!!!

Well, I wonder if the BluRay fans are excited about the premium price they are now having to pay to purchase HD materials.

I walked into Wal-Mart a couple of days ago, and not one BluRay disc was under $30. Some that I had noticed that were in the $25 dollar range are now all...yep you guessed it...$30 now. So, if WalMart has raised their HD prices then everyone I am sure is raising them.

Let's see, Netflix announced a premium price for HD now too. That's great!

I honestly don't think the price of BluRay is ever going to come down. They'll try and blame gas prices or G.W. Bush for having to keep the price at $30 bucks, but we all know that when their is no competition there is no deal.

What did you expect? Prices to fall??

And to think there was a format war...I think we know on which side we landed!!

Not only that, the players are all very high still, $400 being the cheapest. I cannot even convey how much I hate Sony. Good luck seeing a $200 Blu Ray player for a couple years more. They will come out with 2.0 players later this year and say they need to sell at premium price for the new features which already existed years ago on HD DVD.

Ok, like we didn't see this coming. If you didn't you live in a fantasy world.

Sad to say but this is what happens when corporate deals are made and decisions are made on our behalf (the consumer). I believe the war ended to soon.

Let's start a campaign and call it Bring Back HD DVD! I'm kidding of course but in all seriousness if HD DVD won prices would probably have gone up on the movies also. Both formats invested a lot of money so they have to get that cash back somehow.

Competition was good, very good. It's all Warners fault!

[Post edited by Falcon01 on Apr 22, 2008]

Sony got what they wanted. They won the war, at little margin loss (Didn't have to cut prices!). Now they can rape and pillage Blu-Ray supporters with Profile 1.1! Its a win, win...

By the way did I mention that my Blockbuster store has not received any new Blu-Ray disks in the last month? Have you guys noticed the same thing in your area? I did however see that they still have to cut prices on the HD DVD stuff.

Nothing new to add to my collection.

And I am sure even with these high prices the PoS3 is still only creating a loss of money.

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Now they can rape and pillage Blu-Ray supporters with Profile 1.1

-Reaggiep

Now, Now Reaggiep, Sony actually produces a 2.0 player with Dolby TrueHD, dts HD/MA decoding, WiFi connectability and is priced far less than any of it's competitors. I do have to agree with the argument that prices have gone up on players like the Panasonic BD30K. Once wind got out that it was the best BD standalone on the market and it was selling like no tomorrow the price went from $420 to $500 in no time. But think about it, BD standalone prices have basically stayed the same with the exception of the BD30. As far as movies go we all know that BB,CC, Wal*mart and other walk in retailers are going to be more expensive. Like Falcon said if HDDVD would have won the same would hold true ON THE MOVIE SIDE OF THINGS. Thank Goodness we have online retailers like AMAZON.

[Post edited by tony1569 on Apr 22, 2008]

KungFuTaco,

What do you mean a loss of money? It would only spell a loss to the PS3 competitors. SONY breaks even on PS3. They sell it at cost.