Re: Blu-Ray remains a niche product

"dullpain" <fac_187@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> In an interview published this month with the American head of Sony in
> the computer magazine CPU the Sony man (name escapes me) said that
> right now they do not feel they can sell a Blu-ray player at retail
> for less than about $400 and break even.
> Sony may have driven out To****ba but they still do not have a clue how
> to market Blu-ray.
> Unless they get the players in the hands of consumers in the next 18
> months they are likely to lose out to internet downloading and video
> on demand services forever.
> That means getting a unit out there at a mass price point of $250 or
> less. However given the current state of the American economy $250 may
> even be too high.
> Unfortunately for Sony most viewers are quite satisfied with upscaled 
> conventional DVDs on their hi def televisions. If you have a big
> screen in a big room you are not going to see all that great a
> difference between a Blu-ray and an upscaled DVD unless you are
> predisposed to do so because you are a technofreak. 
> 
> 
I use the oppo player is is great but with the To****ba Razan series 52
inch 
the Blu ray  blows away eveeything I have ever seen Just out standing.