Playstations and Blu-Ray players

[andrewducker]

Let's assume that the PS3 will launch for about the same price as the XBox 360 (and anything else would be suicide) at around $450.

And let's also assume that the prices floating around for Blu-Ray players is reasonable accurate and that they'll be starting at $600.

Now, as the PS3 will have a Blu-Ray player built in, who the hell is going to go into competition with Sony by releasing their own player, when they will be beaten so badly on price?

Comments

[andrewducker]

Obviously - that's what I want.

I'm just intrigued by the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD war.

On the other hand, in either case they'll be replaced by VoD within their lifetimes, so I don't care _that_ much about either.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

It'll be interesting to see whether either format *does* take off. People don't want a new format just for the sake of it, which is pretty much what it will be until HD-TV is more commonplace.

People managed with VHS for 20 years. Most people have had DVD players for less than five. And, you know, there are plenty of media formats that just fizzled out. Laserdisc was only ever popular in a niche market. Noone really bought prerecorded minidiscs: they bought the CD and copied it. UMD, Sony's PSP movie format, has been a big, big failure because noone wants to buy a film on DVD and then spend the same amount on a version you can watch on the move. Especially when you can just rip it to mp4 and whack it on a memory stick.

[andrewducker]

Oh, absolutely. I think the push to HD will come from Sky/Telewest initially, and while they're both slowly getting there (Telwest are trialling HD and it's rolling out properly over the next month or two) it'll be a while before it goes at all mainstream.

Not to mention the lack of HD TVs that are any good, at a decent price.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

At least one pr0n publisher claims they'll support Blu-Ray.

[andrewducker]

People still buy porn on little plastic disks?

Have they not heard of the interweb?

[derumi.livejournal.com]

That might be why a publisher wants to go to a DRM-ready format. However long it'll stay "protected".