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Originally Posted by jadedeath
I don't see that happening any time soon.
IP's are constricting bandwidth right now, not increasing it. If it were going in the opposite direction, I might agree with you.
Prices will fall eventually, but right now VoD costs about the same amount to rent as going to the store and picking up a BD {depending on your area} and ownership options for High Def are few and far between.
Depending on how you look at it. They've managed to wrangle the price down by about 50% over the course of the last 2 years, I can't see the price to build it going up either.
*LOL* True enough.
Logan
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Sure it can. It is called currency exchange rates.
The Yen is stronger now and it is hurting all the Japanese companies who make most of their money by selling to other countries which are experiencing lower values for their currency against the Yen. That means the cost of components used to sell a product to OTHER countries with a lowering exchange rate will be the same as a increase in costs. BTW, I doubt Sony can change the exchange rates themselves, so they are stuck with the current rates and have to hope the current trend reverses or else it will be the same as a cost increase to mfg the PS3 and all other products they make.
