rocketpig on 04 December 2008
| The Anarchyz said: Hating Blu-Ray because of the early price is completely full of sh*t... I remember the cost of DVD players when the format launched, they were phreaking expensive... Eventually DVD's got cheap and took over the market... It's the hardware cycle, eventually it becomes faster, cheaper and smaller (while software becomes slower, more expensive and larger), new technologies are always gonna cost a lot first, then get cheaper... |
To draw comparisons, my first DVD player (bought in early 1997, around February, I think) set me back $500.
The first several DVD titles I bought (12 were released at the time... Yes, twelve) were $35 apiece.
Those were 1996/7 dollars. Think of what that equates to today... $600 player? $40 titles?
Prices drop. It happens. On the upside, I just finished watching Trainspotting again 20 minutes ago... One of the original DVD titles I bought.
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