SHopkins, right now Blu-Ray and HD-DVD manufacturers are catering to the higher end crowd, because quite frankly it's the higher end crowd that usually adopts a new format first. They'll likely already have a large HDTV in their living rooms. Plus, it will be these folks who can afford to buy the HD discs. At $35 a pop, the movies themselves aren't mainstream. Releasing a $200 player won't matter as much right now. They will milk the money from the ubergeeks and videophiles first. If you want cheap, you could get a PS3 anyways, and they know this.
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Silverfrog @ Aug 31st 2007 11:02AM
SHopkins, right now Blu-Ray and HD-DVD manufacturers are catering to the higher end crowd, because quite frankly it's the higher end crowd that usually adopts a new format first. They'll likely already have a large HDTV in their living rooms. Plus, it will be these folks who can afford to buy the HD discs. At $35 a pop, the movies themselves aren't mainstream. Releasing a $200 player won't matter as much right now. They will milk the money from the ubergeeks and videophiles first. If you want cheap, you could get a PS3 anyways, and they know this.