$198 too expensive? HD-DVD player on sale for $99 at Wal-mart

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KBG29 said:
Nice to see that Toshiba is royaly f***ing the consumer over. Disney put it best when they said that HD-DVD was a half-step (half-assed) product. Blu-ray is the only future for HDM and it will prevail. Disney said the Blu-ray camp will not sit idle and let a consumer money soaking product win this war. I expect that the new sharp drives will be on sale on BF for $199. Sony, Samsung, and Panasonic should all have some great deals with greatly better marketing. Now is not the time to give into this half step format, everyone needs to do themselfs a favor and choose the right HD format, and that is Blu-ray.

HD-DVD is the steam powered car in this race, Blu-ray is an F16.

Please look at every piece of info on these products before buying. If you can not look at the future you do not need to be purchasing either format right now. It is not about a single individule it is about what is best for everyone. Blu-ray is unargualy the best, the future, Blu-ray is HD.

That is perhaps some of the finest fanboyism I have ever read.  Beyond even that of the SDF.  Without the small bit of bad language, this is fine prose indeed.

Much to your chagrin, there a whole lot of people that don't give a damn about playing video games.  They just want to watch movies.  A $99 High Definition player appeals to the masses and if supply is huge, sales will be huge.  I'll tell you this:  if a Blu-Ray drive were to show up for $99 this holiday, it would sell like crazy.  Your average Joe six-pack isn't a fanboy.  He just wants cheap.  $99 is cheap and will sell.  Period.  The Blu-Ray group better hope that quantities are *limited* and that the selection of HD-DVD movies are thin because a deal like this could move both a lot of hardware and a lot of software at the same time.