| dallas said: Anyway, sony is going to have to reduce the price of the samsung players if it wants the blu-ray to be competitive. Now, sony is probably going to get anywhere from $1-3 from royalties per DVD. Studio fees, marketing, production and shipping are going to take a loooottttt out elsewhere, but sony will always get a cut. It's kind of like the mafia...you always get a cut ho ho ho.
Anyway, if sony promised to samsung, that they would get say 20% of this cut for all future DVD sales, it might be worth it for samsung to chop the price down to $400 for blu-ray players and getting 80% of the world market would be much better than getting 100% of the USA market.....and thats it. Sony had better do something....quick. |
while i agree with these sentiments for a different reason, i think they should cut them quick to get this thing over faster....even with considerably higher prices BD is still leading having outold HD DVD enough to tak eover the LTD lead as well as dominating YTD....i dont see why you act liek some desperation is in order for BD to stay afloat when at this point i think its more important for HD DVD to so something quick before the Sony blockbusters start to roll out, Spidermen, Pirates, Cars, Apocalypto, Matrix in the fall, i truly think sony is in the drivers seat....i just hope they dont get too arrogant and let HD DVD hang around long enough.....if they get stand alones down to 400 by xmas i think with the ps3 userbase and the content they have HD DVD would really have to drop to about 150 by xmas, but thats just my opinion, obviously.
