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The BDP-S350 (top) will be out this summer, the BDP-S550 (bottom) is coming this fall.
Being the winner of the format war has its advantages. Aside from gloating and lighting poo on fire outside of the Toshiba offices, many in the Blu-ray camp have decided to—you guessed it—raise prices.
According to Pricegrabber.com (via Gizmodo), player prices are at an average of $400 for the year. This is actually up a bit from recent numbers. The report includes top high-def hardware manufacturers Sony, Samsung, Panasonic and LG.
Sure deals are out there, and we encourage you to share them here—don’t hoard them for your eBay business! However, for now it seems like the PS3 is the best Blu-ray deal around for $400.
The point is that it doesn’t look like prices are dropping just yet. Sony recently said they assume that $300 players will pop up at some point in 2008. However, they also announced two new players—which start at $400.
“What gets me is that Blu-Ray won the battle, and it has yet to output the same capabilities as that of HD-DVD players”
Yup, read the forums on HD-DVD when it first came out, right up to present day and you wont see one single issue with HD-DVD. A perfect man made format!! haha Pull your head out of the ground mate!
BOTH formats had issues and this is normal (unfortunately) for new products often.
Stop bickering about HD-DUD and biu yourself a PS3! hehe
Like all the inteligent people here say, the prices will come down in time, just like every other CE product in history.
The main reason Blu-Ray players and newer movies will cost more is because of BDj which is a Java based interface that cost a lot to have and program for. Blu-Ray is great for data storage and that is about it especially since there are 1080i/p Upconverting DVD players on the market.
If your into games picking up a Ps3 gives you a great blu-ray player (which has none of the doom and gloom A.A spoke of) ‘icing on the cake’ for cheap or free depending how its looked at.
DVD wasn’t cheap either for a long while when it came out. Toshiba lost a lot of money on what it did and didn’t care what it did to the consumers who followed their mad slashing of prices. Yet it still failed them. It was not good for anyone nor for the industry. Anyone who dumped money into hd-dvd still feels robbed somehow.
Pretty good little news article though Rachel Cericola.
What gets me is that Blu-Ray won the battle, and it has yet to output the same capabilities as that of HD-DVD players.
Many of the new Gen 2. players are still not able to play some of the movies while utilizing menus, internet contect, or so-called new features. While HD-DVD was able to do so from the start.
And now that they are the only kids on the block, they will most certainly price themselves out of existence, you’‘d think the bone-heads would have seen that idea fail them with Beta vs. VHS, but greed never learns.
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