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Sub-200USD HD DVD players just around the bend?
« on: October 18, 2007, 09:55:00 PM »
Sub-200USD HD DVD players just around the bend?
Posted by XanTium | October 18 23:19 EST | News Category: Xbox360
 
From pcworld.com:
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Just a year-and-a-half since they launched, high-definition players are breaching the $200 barrier. If reports on the Web are correct, HD DVD is poised to break the $200 mark before the holidays. Toshiba has told me there's no official pricing moves with regard to their MSRP; however, reports on the Web indicate Wal-Mart may be prepping to sell a $198 HD DVD player.

If so, this is a significant and aggressive move in favor of Toshiba and the HD DVD format: They would be delivering what--up until now--only a no-name manufacturer based in Hong Kong has promised. And even then, Venturer Electronics has yet to release its $199 HD DVD player to market.

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