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Originally Posted by hatt
I continue to be amazed at the logic used here.  Consumers are on a quest to replace their DVD players with better and more expensive DVD players, and at the same time are making a effort to avoid a BD player.  The majority of people who decide their current DVD playback solution isn't good enough are going to buy a BD player. If anything, bringing out new products that are suppose to "improve" DVD will draw even more attention to BD than it would of had before such a campaign. Once BD players of any make start hitting the <$200, the wind for mid priced DVD players won't be strong enough for the sails to even be raised. |
but but but BD software is so expensive
Yeah, i agree with your logic. If you tell people: "Check it out, it's
almost real HD", people will ask: "So, how much for some real HD?" If it's just a small premium, then: "Ups...."
Falling prices for "DVD players with BD capability"
will force mid-range upconverters to erode their prices in order to stay competitive. Not a compelling outlook for other companies to focus on "XDE like" players.
So actually: Once prices for software will come down a bit, dvd will look very old to a lot of people, including some of these fabled J6Ps, who always behave in a way which suits your own argument. (like in this post
)