High costs for Blu players at Amazon

[bancroft]

Just checked out the Amazon web site and the Sony 300 is $370 but delivered in 1 to 2 months.

The 500 has a price of $2,700.

What is going on???

 

[patnshan]

What's going on is no competition.

Pat

 

[j_garcia]

Has to be some kind of mistake... The ES2000 is still $1200, the S500 said $2499.

 

[MUDSHARK]

I notice the price is not from Amazon but one of the partner stores. That model must be unavailable anywhere hence the jacked up price.There do seem to be plenty of the Panasonic and Samsung units. Wonder what Sony's shipping problems involve?

Onecall and BHPhoto also are backordered on Sony Blu-Ray Players.

The Staff Instigator needs to get on this breaking story.

 

[j_garcia]

Probably much higher sales on the lower models due to the demise of HD DVD, which is why the more expensive models are available. Still, that doesn't translate into why the players are listed for crazy prices like that...it isn't like there aren't going to be more BD players. The Panasonic players seem to be about the same price as before.

 

[dobyblue]

The Staff Instigator needs to get on this breaking story.

Yeah, that's all everyone needs is more misinformation and rash, unresearched, unthought-out conclusions being written here.

 

[allargon]

Some of you guys need to take off your Blu glasses. The players went up due to lack of competition from HD DVD, a weak dollar and the tapering off of traditional q4/early q1 discounting.

Acting like players didn't go up is turning a blind eye at best but silly cheerleading at worst. Even Swanni and Bill Hunt said player prices need to come down.

It's true that the former HD supporters are the main ones jumping on this. However, if Onkyo, Pioneer, Marantz, Rotel, Cambridge Audio, Lexicon (okay, maybe not Lexicon), etc. raised prices on their receivers, amps and/or pre-pros, I can guarantee you the staff here as well as many posters would make note of it too.

 

[j_garcia]

Um, the pricing for the expensive players didn't change...so your theory doesn't hold. The weak dollar did not change a $500 player into a $2500 player over night.

 

[MUDSHARK]

Some of you guys need to take off your Blu glasses. The players went up due to lack of competition from HD DVD, a weak dollar and the tapering off of traditional q4/early q1 discounting.

Acting like players didn't go up is turning a blind eye at best but silly cheerleading at worst. Even Swanni and Bill Hunt said player prices need to come down.

It's true that the former HD supporters are the main ones jumping on this. However, if Onkyo, Pioneer, Marantz, Rotel, Cambridge Audio, Lexicon (okay, maybe not Lexicon), etc. raised prices on their receivers, amps and/or pre-pros, I can guarantee you the staff here as well as many posters would make note of it too.

That doesn't explain the shortages and only by Sony. Raise prices and double volume. Wish my marketing people could accomplish that.

Doby: who here does not make rash statements? This whole hobby is about the irrational. Do normal people spend 10K or more on their home entertainment systems? I think not.

I find Stratman's threads entertaining. Keep em coming.

 

[jcPanny]

Sony PS3

Sony's best BluRay player is the PS3. Pick up one with the smaller hard drive for $400. They even have a FW update for the profile 2.0.

With the current pricing trends and the economy, BluRay might not last much longer than HD-DVD.

 

[emorphien]

With the current pricing trends and the economy, BluRay might not last much longer than HD-DVD.

No kidding, I'm giving until the end of this year, maybe this time next year, for a reasonably priced multi format player to hit (BD, DVD, DVD-A, SACD) to replace my Pioneer Elite DV-45A DVD/SACD/DVD-A player with. If that fails I may just have to bite the bullet and buy a PS3 as much as I loathe Sony.

 

[sholling]

It's just Sony's second bite at destroying high definition DVD. First they put the affordable format out of business through marketing muscle and back room deals. Now they jack up the price on the surviving products. The old one two punch.

 

[patnshan]

Sony's best BluRay player is the PS3. Pick up one with the smaller hard drive for $400. They even have a FW update for the profile 2.0.

With the current pricing trends and the economy, BluRay might not last much longer than HD-DVD.

Yep, against my better judgment I am gonna get one. I gotta have my Disney movies in HD I guess I'll use the hard drive as a photo server. I already have an HTPC so really have no great use for it.

Pat

 

[satish536]

Sony's best BluRay player is the PS3. Pick up one with the smaller hard drive for $400. They even have a FW update for the profile 2.0.

With the current pricing trends and the economy, BluRay might not last much longer than HD-DVD.

PS3 is great, I plan on buying one as soon as sony releases a firmware upgrade for support of DTS-HD MA....

 

[ParkerAudio]

Got my new issue of Home Theater magazine, apparently all of us are jumping the boat here, they are still debating whether or not the Warner Bros. decision will kill HD DVD. WEIRD!!!

 

[rgriffin25]

Got my new issue of Home Theater magazine, apparently all of us are jumping the boat here, they are still debating whether or not the Warner Bros. decision will kill HD DVD. WEIRD!!!

Thats one of the disadvantages of print news magazines. Now days the news happens so fast a hardcopy cannot keep up with the web!

 

[fmw]

You're all reading too much into it. Somebody made a mistake at the keyboard.

 

[MUDSHARK]

J&R has the 300 in stock for $399 per Amazon.

Also this little goody
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentDisplayView?cmsId=content/TVandHomeEntertainment/HomeAudio/HES-V1000/index&hideHeaderFooter=false&storeId=10151&catalogId=10551&langId=-1&XID=O:hesv1000:corp_hes_gglsrch

I never read about this one before but at a cost that is nearly decadent.

 

[skads_187]

as someone mentioned before, it's not amazon's price, its another retailer. Whats funny is, I came across the same issue. I was looking for a drum tab book that was out of print, it used to be a 20$ book, now its going for a couple of hundred bucks, used without a cover page. Amazing.
I wonder if there is anyone crazy/dumb enough out there to actually purchase these. I mean imagine someone purchasing the s500 for 2,449.99. Yikes.

 

[mfabien]

...

Also this little goody
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentDisplayView?cmsId=content/TVandHomeEntertainment/HomeAudio/HES-V1000/index&hideHeaderFooter=false&storeId=10151&catalogId=10551&langId=-1&XID=O:hesv1000:corp_hes_gglsrch

I never read about this one before but at a cost that is nearly decadent.

Some people have a lot of money. And some of them may buy anything that will impress others, who have less. Some manufacturers find this a niche market for exotic products.

Other example: Lamborghini and many other items will come to mind for each reader.