Samsung BD-P1000 Blu Ray Player - £149.97

hussey_2

the price in amazon is a stupid 264. but the only review is not very kind on the device..but still, its cheap!
but the price is going to drop for sure..within the next 2/3 months.

Sid_Harper

Jefft wrote: »

Why would removing the competition cause a price drop?? Lack of competition usually results in higher prices.

In this case, I believe people who were previously in the HD-DVD camp will now start to manufacture BR - so competition within this one market goes up

Previously, although the formats were competing, they weren't competing against each other on price... and with movies, etc. having a smaller market possibly only publishing on one of two formats, or costs of publishing on both

With only one format for publishers to publish on going forward, and disc manufacturers to make, the media will also become cheaper... increasing the appeal of the market for consumer and hardware manufacturer

This is exactly what happened with VHS vs. Betamax, CD vs. DCC

sideysid

Sid_Harper wrote: »

In this case, I believe people who were previously in the HD-DVD camp will now start to manufacture BR - so competition within this one market goes up

Previously, although the formats were competing, they weren't competing against each other on price... and with movies, etc. having a smaller market possibly only publishing on one of two formats, or costs of publishing on both

With only one format for publishers to publish on going forward, and disc manufacturers to make, the media will also become cheaper... increasing the appeal of the market for consumer and hardware manufacturer

This is exactly what happened with VHS vs. Betamax, CD vs. DCC

This is Sony we are talking about here... HD-DVD was possible to manufacturer on standard DVD production lines, which was one of the plus points to the format, Blu-ray can't however.
Sony will keep its manufacturing rights close to its chest, so don't expect too much of a drop - more price fixing...this format war was not won by consumer choice.

i_am_the_ONE

sideysid wrote: »

Sony will keep its manufacturing rights close to its chest, so don't expect too much of a drop - more price fixing...this format war was not won by consumer choice.

So are Samsung, Pioneer, Panasonic etc etc ... going to be banned from making them anymore then :rolleyes:

Sub £150 players will be flooding the shops and new features will make dated models like this obselete in a month or so.

Give it three months and Ebay will be coming down with cheap Chinese Blu Ray players.

stephen25uk

sideysid wrote: »

This is Sony we are talking about here... HD-DVD was possible to manufacturer on standard DVD production lines, which was one of the plus points to the format, Blu-ray can't however.
Sony will keep its manufacturing rights close to its chest, so don't expect too much of a drop - more price fixing...this format war was not won by consumer choice.

i think people are getting the whole blu ray rights thing mixed up here,sony do not own the rights to blu ray,they were one of a number of partners that developed the technology,so they arent the only company who can issue rights to manufacture as far as i am aware
sony owns the blu ray logo but the following companies are all on the current board of directors and have all contributed to the development of it with philips actually being the main partner.Apple
Dell
HP
Hitachi
LG
Mitsubishi Electric
Panasonic
Pioneer
Philips
Samsung
Sharp
Sony
Sun Microsystems
TDK
Thomson
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney
Warner Bros
all of the above manufactures all own other companiw who in turn in time will all produce bluray players,this driving down the price of the players..much the same as the case with dvd players now