Re: Blu-Ray remains a niche product

"dullpain" <fac_187@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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In an interview published this month with the American head of Sony in
the computer magazine CPU the Sony man (name escapes me) said that
right now they do not feel they can sell a Blu-ray player at retail
for less than about $400 and break even.
Sony may have driven out Toshiba but they still do not have a clue how
to market Blu-ray.
Unless they get the players in the hands of consumers in the next 18
months they are likely to lose out to internet downloading and video
on demand services forever.
That means getting a unit out there at a mass price point of $250 or
less. However given the current state of the American economy $250 may
even be too high.
Unfortunately for Sony most viewers are quite satisfied with upscaled
conventional DVDs on their hi def televisions. If you have a big
screen in a big room you are not going to see all that great a
difference between a Blu-ray and an upscaled DVD unless you are
predisposed to do so because you are a technofreak.


I use the oppo player is is great but with the Toshiba Razan series 52 inch
the Blu ray blows away eveeything I have ever seen Just out standing.
.

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