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Originally Posted by tomes
I think whether you are red, blue or purple, you can all agree it is good that Toshiba is lowering pricing:
-red boys think that it means HDDVD has a chance
-blue boys will see increased pressure on BD to lower prices as well
-purple will get lower prices (easy to get into HDDVD), plus puts pressure on BD to lower prices (good competition)
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BRAVO!!!!!!!
That says it all right their. The only one this hurts is Sony and the BDA companies, but to the benefit of consumers.
This will keep the pressure on the BD player pricing and possible get the BD price point/features that I require to buy a stand alone BD player. Without this pressure from HD DVD, I do not think they would do it fast enough for me to bother with the BD format or HDM as something would just replace in a couple of years then.
I was saying that with those lower prices Toshiba would ALSO need to secure the exclusivity of the remaining HD DVD studios, AND market them as excellent upscalers now that they are priced like them.
Yes they SHOULD HAVE done this last year before the holidays, and this MAY be too late to win the format war, but if it gets low priced Dual format players in the market it won't matter. Then each format will have to "win" on the merits of costs for both the studios AND the consumer.
MSWOODS:
If the A3 has a street price around $100.00 it will be highly regarded as just an upscaler with the HD DVD playback bonus. SD DVDs boot up much faster than an HD DVD disc. You just have to wait 30 seconds for the player to turn on.
Also, many of the BD-Java movies take over 1-3 minutes just to load the BD movie disc, and they ALSO take a long time to turn on too, so that is not a big issue IMO.