All of you that supported bluray only and wanted 1 next gen format...enjoy!

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kingofwale said:

disolitude said:
There is a Sony bluray player on that site as well and it is 70 bucks more expensive than its cheapest point...

In any case, anyone thinking that competition is not a good thing and that 1 format is the way to go is insane. PS3 without 360 would still be 499 and you'd get 1 game to play every 6 months. But sony has to work hard to compete. Bluray has no such competition... you will see less R&D on the product, prices will be higher...Sony will not lower PS3 price for a while because it may piss off hitachi who are licensing the technology at a higher price...

You know...the corporate BS!

 and yet, the best selling blu-ray player on the market, one the with more than 10 million unit sold, did not raise the price at all.

  yes, Blu-Ray has no competition anymore, neither did CD-Rom or DVD Rom, 

Not quite... CD didn't have competition, especially when it was designed by 2 electronics giants of the time. DVD in the other hand, DVD-, DVD+ and DVD-RAM. Too bad that the best out of the 3 lost badly, while the worst, DVD- is the most common. @other people: About upgrading players... If it requires only firmware upgrade, i don't see any other problems than the will of manufacturers. Since i didn't have any problems to update my DVD-players firmware. When the article is clearly about how the competition pushes prices down, DVD-players early price is somewhat irrelevant, unless the purpose is to show how high the price can still climb.