QUOTE(cryptonic @ Nov 14 2007, 08:41 PM)
Sure this might happen..... Have a good time salivating over this fud news... I'll be happy with the FACT that blueray is trouncing hddvd RIGHT NOW..... Sony backs them for f sake... The majority of the movies in your dvd collection are backed by who.... Sony..... Sure I would like paramount back but I'm not going to buy a hddvd player to play paramount movies.. And did anyone come to the conclusion that the price of blueray players will drop to compete against hddvd... You're living in a dream world if you think that blueray player manufacturers are going to let their revenue fall out the window because they didn't want to compete..... I'm getting really sick of fud news on xboxscene lately.... you would be lucky to find any piece of news on this site these days that wasn't just speculation or rumour. The xboxscene I once knew is long dead.
Do you realy think there is room to lower prices on BluRay Disc Players?
Don't you think we would have seen the biggest BluRay manufacturer do something when the competition went to $99?
Sony put the BluRay player in the playstation and Sony owns half of the studios, so a large precentage of content will be BD exclusive.
PS3 Expected to sell tens of millions, projected BD sales to PS3 owners + projected Bluray player sales driven by exclusive content = BluRay wins.
Toshiba puts out a better thought out product, with final specs.
Their product is easier and cheaper to manufacture, both hardware and media.
The capacity is at least double the current market king DVD and easily can be increased to a size good enough for it's intended purpose.
And all of the above is being done at close to half the price of the competitors product.
So manufacturers are playing it safe by going with Sony, even if they have to pay royalties through the nose, and the production cost are high, and their yeilds are low.
The fact is the Market is so small and production runs of these units are so small that it is not a major risk for anyone but Sony and Toshiba.
But the PS3 has been slow getting out the gate, do to late entry, high cost, little content for core audience, and intial BD movies looked like crap do to initial codec choice.
So Bluray is neck and neck with HD-DVD.
Bluray which is inheirently more expensive than HD-DVD remains expensive at retail, relative to its competitors.
1) Uneducated Consumer (99% of Population) go to big box retail store and see demo units, Picture looks good on both, both units are hooked up to surround sound, in the mind of the uneducated consumer both are the same thing.
Consumer chooses the most competitively priced product.
2) Uneducated consumer is told that movies are exclusive to on type of player in some cases , consumer gets angry dosen't by either product.
3) Small precentage of consumers by both formats or multi format player.
Manufactures notice a large portion of market share is going to HD-DVD, manufactures being in business to make money descide that there is an oppertunity to capitalize on this still developing market and begin producing more HD-DVD players, which are cheaper to produce.
The increased competition and manufacturing enhancements, drive HD-DVD player prices down even further.
BD cost fall, but not as rapidly or as significantly as HD-DVD, and Sony still charges high royalty fees, as they try to recoupe many consecutive quarters worth of losses on PS3, incentives paid to retailers, marketing cost, ect.
Consumer adoption of HD-DVD gets more attention from studios whom are in business to make money, they begin releasing more content in HD-DVD.
Sony's movie studios begin to realize there is a sizable market that owns one HD disc player and it is not BD compatable, being that Sony Studios is in business to make money they descide to release movies in both BD and HD-DVD.
Sony begins to make Multi format players.
And thats how it will end.
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