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.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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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.