| disolitude said: http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/03/12/blu_ray_player_prices_hit_2008_highs_as_competition_dwindles/
Who didn't see this happening? Come on, don't be shy to admit it... The fact that Sony is in charge here means that most likely it will be atleast another 3 years until we get bluray media under 5 dollars a disk and burners under 100 dollars.
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I'm totally fine with this. New technology is not supposed to be cheap. DVD was also pretty expensive when it come out. The problem is that the HDDVD vs BR war delayed the adoption of a new format and forced the prices down. Now the war is over and the adoption process will be similar to what we used to from the past (B&W TV->Color TV, VHS->DVD and now DVD->BR).
It will be expensive for the first couple of years and not everyone will be able to afford it (if you "poor" stay with DVD, stay away from new tech), then it will drop price and become mainstream.
Are you guys too young to remember when DVD come out? DVD movies were more expensive than VHS movies, DVD players were way more expensive than VHS players and DVD could not even write to media while VHS could. Then DVD got cheap and the expensive DVD devices were the one's that could write DVDs. Now even DVD re-writers are dirt cheap.
I see a similar process for BR. First only a few people will buy BR devices and movies (first 2 years - 08/09), in 09 the prices will drop hard and an "affordable" (read it as expensive, rofl) BR-RW device will be released, then in 2011+, alsmost everyone will be able to afford a BR-RW and use it to play movies, backup their sh*t (even digital movie downloads), record TV shows, etc, etc, etc.
I'm looking forward to the days where I can backup my stuff to a 150Gb BR media. I could care less if Blu-ray replaces DVD or not, for me it already did (I only buy BR movies since Toshiba dropped the ball on HDDVD). Now I just need a BR-RW drive to use BR for my personal backups.
