| Kwaad said: He seems to think the nubmer said was 199 (not 299 like it is guessed) He also seems to not realise... Wal-mart will still sell the BluRays... With the movies the people want... so the people wont buy the HD-DVD player. Also, it's not even 100% positive it is a HD-DVD player. As in, you could describe the BluRay player... as... 'A Blue Laser HDDVD player." That describes both BluRay and HD-DVD. |
If you really want to get down to this, and do the exhaustive research that you did so well for the high def TVs, you'll conclude that it's 95% certain that it's a HD-DVD player.
Yeah, it's not 100%, the 5% is just waiting for an official release from Wal-Mart.
Some numbers:
- $300 mln contract for 2 million players (some taiwanese company), due by end of year (though uncertain if it's fiscal year or calendar year). that's $150 per player. 50% markup for walmart, $225. $199 totally possible, highly unlikely at $299.
- the chinese translation is "blue light"; if you do the research you'll realize most likely this is refering to just the blue laser diode, not "blu-ray". sony has yet to license blu-ray to low cost manufacturers, thus no possibility of being a blu-ray disk.
whatever, not like this affects us one way or another. not like ps3 won't continue to use blu-ray.
in the end, people only believe what they want to believe, and research when they want to have their points proven. sigh.
the Wii is an epidemic.
