Even though I hate Walmart the way they're offering a 100 dollar rebate on BD players is a good step. Among other things it makes PS3s cost 299. By and large what BD needs to do, flat out, is price at the same level as the high end of DVD on new releases. About 20 dollars is plenty, when I go and see new releases for 35 dollars there is no way in hell I'm paying that. Basically what BD is competing with is cheap used DVDs. Go to Hollywood Video or Blockbuster and there are endless newish (month old) movies for 6 bucks each to own. I might pay 14 more to have a BD version and have it faster, but why in the world would anyone pay 30 more?
Its not just lack of players, its more lack of competitive pricing. I know there's no way the disk costs more then 4 or 5 dollars bulk (since you can get them for 10 each buying just one) so its almost certainly just a greed issue. If they don't aggressively price optical media will die a slow death and DVD will join Blu Ray in losing out to downloaded media. I bought Rambo First Blood on a whim at frys on BD. The reason? Someone actually smartly priced it at 15 bucks.
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