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Originally Posted by brant
Wal-mart has some blu-ray players for under $240 now; i'll consider buying one if they reach the $150 mark. The first DVD player I ever purchased (and still have) cost $550; DVD's were around $30 a piece. The last DVD player I purchased was $30. The first one I bought was probably 10 years ago and we're still on DVD's. I can wait another 5 years to purchase a blu-ray player. To be honest, I'm hoping netflix will start streaming HD video over the roku player. Even now, w/o HD, i'm thinking about buying one. If they ever start streaming HD video, i'll have no reason to purchase a blu-ray player.
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Some Blu-ray players are already available for less than $200. It won't be long before they hit $150. When I bought my first DVD player, it cost $150, and that was several years after they first appeared. Blu-ray players are actually coming down in price a lot faster than DVD players did. And remember what happened a few months ago when Walmart was offering an HD DVD player for $98? People were lining up in the stores at 6:00am to buy them.
Netflix will be streaming HD very soon. The problem will be the same as what we're seeing now with SD streaming - limited content and virtually no new releases available for streaming. Check the list of new releases in SD each week and see how many of them are available for streaming. Answer: close to zero. That's because they have to negotiate rights, and it's going to be difficult to do that under a flat monthly pricing system.