Anyone who has held off purchasing a Blu-ray player will be happy to know that their waiting period has paid off, as Blu-ray players have have dropped by at least 20% over the past 45 days according to this TG Daily report. The price drops affect entry level Blu-ray players including the Sharp BD-HP20U, Sony BDP-S300, Samsung BD-P1400 and Panasonic DMP-BD30K. Just to give an example of the price difference over recent months, the Panasonic DMP-BD30K averaged around $500 between March and June and now sells for just over $250 on average.
Like the HD DVD players that hit $99 last year lacked some advanced features such as 1080p, these players don’t have the latest Blu-ray profile features such as BonusView support. Then again, for those who want Blu-ray for watching movies and don’t care much about the bells & whistles the bonus content has to offer, they are unlikely going to miss the feature.
So far, Sony’s BDP-S300 Blu-ray player has managed to break the $200 barrier with a retailers listing this for under $200. It’s current average retail price is $207 according to Pricegrabber (for October 15th). The lowest price BonusView capable players currently start over $350.
Another thing that makes Blu-ray more attractive now compared to earlier in the year is the drop in Blu-ray movie prices. Then again, this isn’t really much of a surprise at this stage with Blu-ray movies struggling to boost sales most of this year. Also, despite all the publicity and advertising Blu-ray got, not to mention the format being available for over 2 years now, the majority of movie sales are still on DVD, with online movie download services gaining popularity.
It will be interesting to see how low Blu-ray prices get for the holiday season, considering that earlier this year, Blu-ray players were predicted to never reach $200 this year.
12 Comments
- guest
- Posts: 15288
- Posted on: 17 Oct 08 23:17
Can someone please enlighten me? I mean, they already tore up the world with the movies at the theater, why in the heck are they retailing for nearly 30 dollars a pop? Surely it cannot be that expensive to provide content for such a sophisticated player that costs a mere 200 dollars? How expensive is it really to stamp out discs? Are we getting shafted by Hollywood? Or by the royalty takers?
Do we really want to support this sort of thing and at the same time restrict our Fair Use Rights?
Discuss amongst yourselves....
- guest
- Posts: 15288
- Posted on: 18 Oct 08 02:12
Why would any one buy a Profile 1.0 or 1.1 player, ever?" Unless you want all the BD live crap a profile 1.1 player would be fine.
each home buys one player, so sell it cheap. but, they buy multiple blue-ray discs. make the profit there.
once you have a blue-ray player, you would probably inclined to pay the extra and skip DVD.
- guest
- Posts: 15288
- Posted on: 19 Oct 08 02:35
NOPE !....It´s more like selling cheap COLOR PRINTERS and making profit from the INK ....
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