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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
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| As suspected the Blu-ray industry (both hard & software) smell the big money after the dead of HD DVD. |
Loss of competition rarely means good news for the consumer & that certainly is true in the recently called format war battle. If you aren’t especially interested in the outgoing HD DVD players, which retailers are trying to get rid of by the end of this month, Blu-ray could remain very pricey for some time to come. Average retail prices of Blu-ray players showed little impact & the majority of devices on the market are under a slight upward price curve, TG Daily found.
According to pricegrabber.com, an average HD DVD player hit new record lows today with reported prices of $102 for the 720p HD-A3 model and the $137 for the 1080p HD-A30 version. Supplies of the high-end HD-A35 are running out, which means that average prices are somewhat high at $272.
Hopefully most smart consumers abandon the DRM/Regioncoded-bloated Blu-ray format totally & wait for a good (legal) downloadservice, without DRM/Regioncoding of course! But I guess this is still wishful thinking... Well there are still some good alternatives ;-)
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