100$ HD-DVD Players

[Steve 3.2]

rocketpig said:

FishyJoe said:
The fact of the matter is there are going to be sub $200 HD-DVD players in every major retailer this holiday. It's a price point that Blu-ray players can't/won't match. Momentum has completely shifted towards HD-DVD.

Indeed it has. It will be fun watching these two duke it out over the next 14 months as the war heats up a bit. I always said that as long as HD-DVD keeps their price under Blu-ray, they're still my favorite to win the war. If HD-DVD can get players to $100 and Blu-ray is still hovering around $250, all hell will break loose and you'll start to see studios questioning the viability of Blu-ray instead of HD-DVD.

At $100 or less, an HD-DVD player becomes a viable DVD upscaler. It also adds the benefit of watching HD-DVD movies when available. That's very attractive to consumers. I almost bought the A2 until I realized that I really don't want to be a part of this war. I don't give a rat's ass who wins because my pocketbook won't be voting any time soon but I still enjoy watching others get so riled up over shiny little coaster formats while two monolithic companies fight tooth and nail over the scraps the DVD market is currently leaving behind.

Good times.

I agree with you 100%.  When I first heard about this on Thursday, I was so tempted to visit Walmart.  And when I heard about Best Buy matching their deal, I was kicking myself for not catching it sooner.  In the end though, I don't have an HD TV yet.  (Maybe this Black Friday.)  And I was mostly looking at it to upconvert my DVDs since my old DVD player died a while ago and I don't want to kill my PS2 playing movies.