More Blu-ray Players to Hit $99 This Holiday

[Marcus Yam]

The price of technology falls to mass market affordability thanks to China

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[jsloan]

the disks are still too expensive

 

[Hitokage]

Now I'm sad that I paid $300 for a Blu-ray/HD-DVD combo player...

At least I got Heroes Season 1 on HD-DVD for $10...

 

[grieve]

yup... what jsloan said.

I have had a PS3 forever, i have a couple blue ray movies, they are simply too pricey

 

[tayb]

Alright! Blu-ray is finally going to get to the price point HD-DVD hit two years ago! Nice.

 

[deltatux]

Not moving to Bluray until they release cheaper Bluray drives so I can pop it into my media centre.

It costs like CAD$130 just for a reader!

 

[Zenthar]

If only HDTV prices could fall as fast as the players, it might help as well 😛. Anyone knows the % of people with HDTV by "type" (ex: 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p) or even "globally"?

 

[the_one111]

[citation][nom]Zenthar[/nom]If only HDTV prices could fall as fast as the players, it might help as well . Anyone knows the % of people with HDTV by "type" (ex: 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p) or even "globally"?[/citation]
Amen.

I want a 1080P but I can't make myself shove out that kinda money.Especially when the 720p is like 200-300 bucks less.

 

[Guest]

So Sony finally released the iron sphincter grasp on it's stupid blue-ray. I guess they were trying to milk that 400+ price point on worthless PS3 machines using the old excuse..."but it has a blue-ray in it!"
I suppose the fear of not selling a single machine is starting to set in their thick skulls. They are most likely about to drop the price but I guarantee it will be something stupid like a 128 Mb PS3 with no wireless, no controllers, no hard-drive for $350.

 

[Guest]

The problem isn't the player itself (you buy it only once) the problem are the movies...
They still too expensive....
But I have to tell u: For sure those Chinese players will deliver lower quality than others...

 

[Zenthar]

Might sound stupid, but the first Chinese players might be of higher quality just because they will not have perfected how "cheap" they can make them. I bough one of the first sub-100$ DVD player when it came-out (might be like 7 years ago) and I still use it today. In the mean time, my parents went through 2 different cheap models they bought in the past 4 years ...

 

[ispyamoose]

Until Blu-ray becomes even more mainstream, the disks won't be as cheap as a dvd. I don't know how much it costs to make Blu-ray disks, but they are probably charging a premium per disk; I mean, around $30 a movie? Give me a break.

I typically watch a movie once. That is what the movie theater or Netflix is for (and Netflix does have Blu-ray media available for rental).

 

[tayb]

Blu-ray disks won't ever be as cheap as DVD's are today. It took 10 years for DVD to get this cheap there is no way hell Blu-Ray is still a dominant format in 2019. Optical media is so fragile the only thing "next generation" about it is the pixels it can punch. Everything else about blu-ray sucks. Slow, loud, expensive, expensive, fragile, big, heavy. Nah.

 

[wiyosaya]

Prices for all things Blu-ray will fall as time goes on. Me, I want my stand-alone Blu-ray recorder in the US.

 

[sciggy]

I have had a blu ray player for over a year now and have yet to pay more than $15 for any movie. Most of the ones that I've bought at that $15 price point were new releases after a few weeks of their release date. You just have to look for deals a little harder than you would for dvds. There have been plenty of bogo (buy one get one) deals and such from places like amazon. You just cant walk into a retail store and see a $30 blu ray and assume they are all the same price no matter where you go. Its the same thing walking into best buy and seeing a 500 watt antec power supply for $130 when you know the same thing or better things online at newegg are $60.

 

[bootleghooch]

New releases on Amazon are usually under $25, older movies can be found as low as $10. Most of my purchases have been in the $15 to $18 range, prices just went up a bit on Amazon since they started doing a buy 2 get 1 free sale.

If you're willing to go used they get much better than that. True, you aren't going to find a blu-ray for the same price as a DVD, but for me it's worth the extra $5 or so.

An inexpensive blu-ray player can only help the media prices drop in the long run.

 

[tenor77]

Just be sure you can update the firmware, otherwise you'll have a $99 used-to-play-blu-ray

 

[jsloan]

wait a minute as more and more people with to bluray the cost of the disks should go down. locally blueay disks are sold about $10 more than dvd disks which are now wold for $20 for new releases, thats up $5 over last years $15 for new releases, i cant see why the high costs, the dvds are like dirt cheap, less than a time and how much is a bluray disk in quantities of millions to these manufacturers. cant be much more... or justify the $40 price tag for new releases.

 

[duckmanx88]

for that $100 you can only get 3-4 blu ray discs, regardless of how old the movie is. so EFF that. hurry up and bring the cost of discs down.!

 

[gto127]

I have a blu ray player & a HD/DVD player. I rent on blu ray & buy on hd-dvd since you can buy movies for about 5 bucks vs 20 to 30 for blu ray.