Re: BluRay Disc pricing released


tabernacle2...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
*** Sidbury wrote:
In article <1139424253.803302.205140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Goro" <evilninjax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Catalog titles : $18
New releases : $24


When a bookstore buys a book from a distributor (middle man) it
typically pays 60% of list price plus shipping. If these (wholesale)
prices are distributor selling prices then the retail would be about 30
and 40 respectively.

I figure add 50% and subtract 25%, so a 24 dollar new release would be
about 36 dollars sticker minus 9 dollars at bb, cc, etc. So you get it
on opening week for 27 bucks.

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-- if that's the case, with the possibility of mandatory network
connections, I'll just be stuck with the 14.99 to 17.99 first week
prices for the regular DVDs.


$27.00 plus two, maybe three dollars for sales tax for each title
(depending on your state)???
Man BR had better be one hell of a leap in quality over the current
generation DVD (which btw has already given me the best picture/sound
quality I have ever experienced on the small screen) before I will even
begin to consider switching over my library of titles!
Especially so when you factor in things like (for example) that around
90% of the current crop of titles out are taken from predigital master
prints to begin with, which means that using BR to squeeze out that
last ounce in quality is simply not needed, also factor in that you can
use an Upconverting DVD player (which are going for under $150.00 off
the shelf price any day of the week at say CC) which can give you near
HD quality with the current generation dvd...well you do the math?
New equipment (Players/Recorder) and new disc costs to replace all my
crop of titles, from Alien to Star Trek TOS to Zulu Versus $150.00
(maybe less if I catch a sale) for a new DVD player or two?
Not Even Close!!!

I've got to say that HD (imo) just blows DVD away. I haven't seen
BluRay or HD-DVD, but the OTA HD I've watched SuperBowel, BCS Games,
PBS HD, and various tv shows in HD. It jsut looks much better, even
though there are still some noticeable issues (especially in
NASCAR/Football when it pans the crowd).

Many years ago, I started noticing DVDs image limitations, artifacting,
macroblocking. If BR just gave higher bandwidth for a less compressed
image allowing for no (or very little) artifacting then that alone
would be worht it (agin imo). The fact that it's 1080p makes it highly
desirable.

I must say that I'm getting a touch of the deja vu now. This is
sounding almost EXACTLY like alt.video.laserdisc just prior to DVD
release. After about 2-3 years on the market, a good number of people
here will understand and appreciate the difference b/w BRD and DVD.

Now, i do accept that it may end up a niche market as the incremental
advantage of BRD over DVD may not be importatn enough for the
mainstream consumer. There's also all the DRM nonsense that's going
on. And oh yeah, there's this small format war thing (though it seems
to me that it'slikely to end up in BRDs favor).

So perosnally, i'm holding off until 2nd or 3rd gen players in the <$1k
range before jumping in.

-goro-

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