The First sub $200 HD Player

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your mother on 29 August 2007

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A $199 price point puts it easily in the range of a Christmas present. Good news for HD.

...while keeping in mind there's still four months before the holiday season, so there is no reason why the HD DVD entry price point cannot be lowered even more, perhaps with the introduction of other budget HD DVD players by Chinese manufacturers.

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El Duderino on 29 August 2007

Now this IS news, I´m not interested in this HB- PinkRay war or whatever at all, but this is the first step needed to really start a battle with DVDs, I still remember people laughing at DVDs before they hit the 199$ price point (my dad gave me my first DVD, a The Who DVD, about a year before we had a DVD player because he had no Idea what it was :)

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HappySqurriel on 29 August 2007

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Yes I am pumped for this. Great to see that a cheap peice of crap could ruin the Movie industries chance at having a great format. This is the best news ever.

Except for a tiny ammount of extra storage space, how is Blu-Ray any better as a format?

It has the same crappy size, same codecs, same crappy packaging, and same crappy DRM ...

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twesterm on 29 August 2007

Since we're talking about cheap HD DVD players...

360 HD DVD addon plus 9 free HD DVD's for $179.00

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shams on 29 August 2007

rocketpig said:

tk1797 said:

Thats pretty cheap but its gonna be hard to catch up to almost 5 million blu-ray players. I know people say that the ps3 dosen't count but it plays blu-ray so it does.

The huge difference is that every HD-DVD unit out there was purchased for the distinct purpose of playing HD-DVD movies while there are surveys out there saying that 40% of PS3 owners don't even know there is a high-def player in the PS3. There are no reliable numbers out there showing what number of PS3s are being used as Blu-ray players, making that 5 million number questionable at best, completely worthless at worst.

QFT. Everyone that buys one of these will do so purely to watch movies.

If it did 720p, I would be more than happy with this.

This also signals that China production of these babies is starting - which means (for starters) that Asian countries will be flooded with damned cheap HD-DVD players. Which in turn means lots of pirate movies, ROMs on the web (etc..) - which in turn means huge consumer interest.

Expect to see $149 versions within a few months, and possible the first $99 HD-DVD player within 6-9 months.

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