More Blu-ray Players to Hit $99 This Holiday

[Silluete]

DVD can go mainstream quick because it's nature, it's no need for "insert some HD Plasma-lcd brand" to play. Hell i can play my dvd movie at any 14' tv, but can blue ray do that? No even if you can afford one you still need large one to really appreciate it. In other word the cost for entry level for Blueray it's too high ( at least for me)

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]sciggy[/nom]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.[/citation]

MOST people dotn shop movies at amazon , so your point is really moot GENERAL retail on blu rays is to high , youw atn to talk maozon , damn i can get dvd's for $5 bucks fromther not countign the shipping , so int eh end blu rays are still pricey compared to dvd's. and i can guarantee youwn ant se main stream penetration fo blu ray untill those disk come down to retail at 20 bucks. (that would make themn about 10 bucks at amazon and other online retialers). dotn get me wrong i get what youar e syaign i shop new egg and amazon a lot myself , but average joe blow and yoru grandma DO NOT. they are lookign at retial prices and blu ray retial is jsut to damn high.

 

[demonhorde665]

oh and for teh guy that mentioend about LCD's as part of cost entry , soon with in next 10 years all borad cast will not only be goign digital (liekt eh mreo reascent transition) but they will also start broad castign in HD only. LCD's are getting cheaper
walmart even has a 42" that is going for right at $595 Bucks , just 10 years ago i paid $650 for a 35 inch CRT (whcih died on us a week ago), so LCDHD tvs WILL nto be an issue as thier prices are fallign every day and more and more hoems will be going HD as they loose transmition on thier old SD CRT's.

 

[hannibal]

Ofcource the prizes will come down, because UHD guality movies will be the next pricy thing, when Blue ray are common and everyone has full hd display system...
Look how mush charper the picture is with UHD than poor old HD format... tvice sharper picture four time more picels.. etc...

But yeah... Those Blue Ray disk are a little bit too expensive at this moment, but sooner or later there only is blue ray versions... you only have to wait 15-25 years and dvd dyes out...

 

[Guest]

I pirate all my movies so I don't really care.

 

[Parrdacc]

I do not know what some of you are talking about. I have not paid over $25 for a Blue Ray movie. On average I pay around $20. I tend to stay away from any of those special edition versions and maybe that's why, but a typical widescreen Blue Ray for me is around $15 to $25 depending on how old the movie is. Yes DVD is still cheaper and still have lots of them, but I love the Blue Ray movies. Now if they could just get me a burner for cheap I would be set.

 

[sandmanwn]

Its BLU-RAY!!! How can so many of you spell it wrong with a giant friggin logo in the article.

 

[wildwestgoh]

Drop the BD-RW drive & media, then we can start talking =P