| scorptile said: ok here is my view on the whole blue ray thing. the only way blue ray becomes the norm is to have teh movies released at 15-20 dollars a disc and that is a new release not a 5 year old movie which they have been releasing them still at 25. the second is the players themselves. sony is still selling theirs at about 200-300 dollars but the low end blue ray is about 130 now with the occasional 75 black friday deal roughly. it has to drop in price to even replace the current dvd sales and libraries. but with blue ray upscaling older dvd's why buy the blue ray version. it is alot like HDTV's yes yo ucant get tube tv's anymore but yet with the prices they have to come down big time before people will buy them. unless like what happend to me was my 33" tv got fried by the utility company and they blamed it on a squirell. but we survived for month till after i started school. i got my money from school and used 800 of it to buy a HDTV bundle which was tv, mount and hdbar and a 6' hdmi cable. so yeah my next purchase iwanna get is a blue ray player just cause of teh hype i have been hearing about it. but yet the only way we are getting one if it is around 100 or less. which i think will be aroudn the low end prices come jan. |
Well I will update you take on Blu-ray movies. Players have officially dropped into the sub $100 range and that was months before BF even came around. These players are even Bonus View capable. As for the Sony Blu-ray players, Sony has always been a more expensive brand when it comes to electronics. I dont understand why you mention Blu-ray players upscaling ability, if you are going to buy a Blu-ray player its not for that feature. There are cheaper payers out there that do it just as well as the Blu-ray players do.
As for the price of the movies, they have come down as well, most new releases are between 15-22. Look at most of these titles, most are under $20, and most are new releases.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/dvd/16295751/ref=amb_link_7181242_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1GTHAZQJPDCX79JHYB7Y&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=490906451&pf_rd_i=193640011
