Sony LCD HDTVs with Built-in Blu-ray

[admin]

The format war long over, now Sony wants to expand the presence of Blu-ray. The Sony boss says it’s time to start stuffing Blu-ray players into more products, including HDTVs. The story-between-the-lines is we’re probably about to see Blu-ray players at the bottom-end of the price spectrum.

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[Seth=L]

We can only hope to see cheaper players soon, but now that I have a Blu-ray playback device I am more interested in seeing more and less expensive Blu-ray discs.

 

[Alamar]

We can only hope to see cheaper players soon, but now that I have a Blu-ray playback device I am more interested in seeing more and less expensive Blu-ray discs.

I agree with you. I'm at the point where I'd prefer to see less expensive content as opposed to less expensive players.

Note: I read on a few websites that certain components in BD players are in short supply again. The PC add on makers are worried that they may not hit any of their price cut targets. I HOPE that prices go down but I'm not really expecting the huge price cuts that others are looking for. [Until Black Friday or so ...]

 

[bancroft]

Sony LCDs

Sounds a little desperate to me. I would never consider something like this. But maybe SONY thinks we Americans love our HTIB.

Like above, give me lower priced content.

 

[Wayde Robson]

I agree, I'm looking for lower priced discs as well.

I don't know how it is in the US but in Canada the price of an average new movie on Blu-ray is about 32 bucks. After tax it's close to 40 bucks for a movie.

I'll just rent for now.

 

[stratman]

If Sony can bring it to market at a low price point, you'd be surprised how many would jump at that, "Hey Marge! Lookit, it's got one of them there blue lazers thing, it can play blue discs.....cool, lookit it's only 300 bucks, hell we can swing that from our welfare fund!"

 

[Alamar]

I'll just rent for now.

At this point that's the only thing that just "kills me". I'd jump in with both feet if I could purchase content at lower price points. When NetFlix is your best [almost only non-bogo option] then something is flat-out-wrong.

Although it would never happen I wish that if I could prove that I had the DVD versions of XYZ that I could pay an upgrade fee to get BD versions of the content that I already own. This way content providers get $ that I may otherwise "never" willingly give them and I get an upgraded experience.

 

[allargon]

I agree with you. I'm at the point where I'd prefer to see less expensive content as opposed to less expensive players.

Nope, content is going to stay expensive, too. Ironically, it was the cheap Chinese players (at the expense of the big Japanese and European congolomerates) that made SD DVD so successful.

http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=26734

Blu-ray disc prices to stay at a premium as Sony struggle to meet demand

According to analysts at Screen Digest, manufacturers cannot make enough Blu-ray discs to meet global demand this year. Now that HD-DVD has thrown in the towel, analysts believe that global demand for Blu-ray discs will rise three times in 2008 to a minimum of 43 million units. Sony, the biggest manufacturer of Blu-ray discs, "is investing in extended production line capacity to produce 38 million discs per month by October. This would meet just 60 to 70 per cent of global forecast demand." It is expected that with demand outstripping supply, we will see Blu-ray disc prices stay at a premium.

Blu-Ray was capacity constrained last year. That was one of the things Paramount mentioned when they went HD DVD exclusive.

What's done is done. The rules are simple--pay to play.

 

[bancroft]

I think the economy is going to get much worse. Please pray I am wrong. Gas will be $4 per gallon and disposable income is shrinking. Blue Ray will be mightily challenged by forces outside its control. And a $30 movie will not seem attractive to most. Renting will be the option, IMHO, that will make the format survive in the next twelve months. Look at the box office numbers to date for movies. They are down considerably from last year.

 

[stratman]

I think the economy is going to get much worse. Please pray I am wrong. Gas will be $4 per gallon and disposable income is shrinking. Blue Ray will be mightily challenged by forces outside its control. And a $30 movie will not seem attractive to most. Renting will be the option, IMHO, that will make the format survive in the next twelve months. Look at the box office numbers to date for movies. They are down considerably from last year.

The IMF said yesterday that the US was headed for a mild to moderate recession with a slow recovery taking place next year, but it might be a drawn out come back, we'll have to wait and see as these are forecasts only and really anything can happen . The real estate market should stabilize sometime next year and movement is expected to remain slow, here in Miami we have an excess of condo units, but single family homes are still being sold, though slowly as there is a market for them, high-end homes always do well as those persons are pretty much recession proof.