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Needs to be lower unless they will toss in 10-20 movies...
good to see the prices dropping on BluRay as well
competition is great
Hmm... $100 for HD-DVD or $340 for Blu-ray. I have to say I'm still not quite sold on Blu-ray. :D If they expect to win this little competition they're going to have to do better than that.
Hmmmmm, what's keeping these people, eh?
Where are all the 'desperation', 'fire sale' and 'stock clearance' comments now, huh?
LMAO.
Blu-ray.....even at $339.99, it's cheapest it's still well over $150 more expensive than HD DVD - and the BDP 1400 is one hell of a buggy player - and it's only profile 1.0 & therefore well under-spec'd & already obsolescent.
The Toshiba HD A3 is currently $173.98 on Amazon and for quibblers on the whole 1080i/1080p nonsense the HD A30 is comfortably under that Blu-ray price too @ $279.98.
Even with HD players so low, I can't see Joe Everyman running out to buy a next gen standalone just yet. Maybe after they drop down to the $100 mark people will start investing in the next gen formats. I'm sure more and more people have been investing recently but I doubt it is anywhere near the numbers both camps would like to be seeing.
Amen brother dvd-9 for me all the way and a good upconvert dvd player does the trick.
The other thing is, as long as HD-DVD players and Blu-ray players remain backward compatable I doubt people will rush to rebuy their whole movie collection on a more expensive format when they really wont need to. Although I wouldn't be supprised if Blu-ray won the war if Sony dropped the backward compatability sometime afterwards.
Drop backwards compatability? That is crazy talk there. How can you even replace your movie collection when the movies aren't even on BD or HD-DVD? I don't understand why we are not getting the must have movies that we all have on dvd already. LOTR, Star Wars, and so on. Release some good movies already and give us some sales in HD. I couldn't find one ad that included either format on Black Friday. I am spending any extra money on other hobbies because of lack of selection.
I still say if you want one of these you would be better off getting a PS3. At least it offers more for that kind of price.
Of course no-one is going to replace their existing DVD collection (not at least until they get a large HD TV and see for themselves the benefit of real high def DVD over upscaled DVD).
The point here is that HD DVD players are now at and around the price of a regular decent SD DVD player.
There's no point in 'just' buying a new upscaling SD DVD player, you'd be crazy not to just pay the same sort of money and buy an excellent upscaling DVD player that also happens to be a fine HD DVD player.
That's the (mass) market HD DVD is going for.
The PS3 isn't even at the races on that one.
Originally posted by hughjars:
Of course no-one is going to replace their existing DVD collection (not at least until they get a large HD TV and see for themselves the benefit of real high def DVD over upscaled DVD).
The point here is that HD DVD players are now at and around the price of a regular decent SD DVD player.
There's no point in 'just' buying a new upscaling SD DVD player, you'd be crazy not to just pay the same sort of money and buy an excellent upscaling DVD player that also happens to be a fine HD DVD player.
That's the (mass) market HD DVD is going for.
The PS3 isn't even at the races on that one.
Originally posted by hughjars:
Of course no-one is going to replace their existing DVD collection (not at least until they get a large HD TV and see for themselves the benefit of real high def DVD over upscaled DVD).
The point here is that HD DVD players are now at and around the price of a regular decent SD DVD player.
There's no point in 'just' buying a new upscaling SD DVD player, you'd be crazy not to just pay the same sort of money and buy an excellent upscaling DVD player that also happens to be a fine HD DVD player.
That's the (mass) market HD DVD is going for.
The PS3 isn't even at the races on that one.
Originally posted by camaro17:- No.
ok hughjars shut up
Quote:Originally posted by camaro17:- No.
ok hughjars shut up
It's an open public message board and I'm acting 100% within the rules.
Go try & exercise your dreary little fascist tendencies on someone who might care less about how you can't bear to hear anything different to what you 'think'.
What I said was spot on & totally accurate
(both in terms of the current situation regarding price, the relative specs and not forgetting the gross and patently obvious hypocrisy of certain posters)
Originally posted by camaro17:- No problem, I've always got time for a guy who is happy to apologise. ;)
i am sorry for telling you to shut up
Originally posted by camaro17:- The truth is that I got sick of the Blu-ray BS, that's all.
but everytime something good happens to blu-ray you always try to cut it down by mentioning something bad about it, like as if hd-dvd doesn't have its downsides too
The prices are heading the right way i will wait for it go lower and also waiting for the the burners price to drop.
Will not change formats until....I can make backups of those movies, record and burn in the new format, and pay 30$ or less for a 25pak spindle. Until then no switch for me!