@William: Blu-ray is doing well, yes. I was at two Best Buys tonight and it's clear that Blu-ray is starting to edge HD-DVD in terms of selection, etc. (Blu-ray easily had double the shelf space and titles HD-DVD did).
BUT... that could change if the Blu-ray folks don't have a player that's competitive with the lower-end HD-DVD players. I'm not saying that they need to be on the same price level, but a Blu-ray player at $249 would make a lot of difference right now.
Sony and the other Blu-ray manufacturers do have to answer this price cut, and the 40GB PS3 isn't the answer (even with the free Spider-man 3). Otherwise we could be talking about Blu-ray's demise in a year's time.
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Geoffrey Sperl @ Oct 28th 2007 1:20AM
@William: Blu-ray is doing well, yes. I was at two Best Buys tonight and it's clear that Blu-ray is starting to edge HD-DVD in terms of selection, etc. (Blu-ray easily had double the shelf space and titles HD-DVD did).
BUT... that could change if the Blu-ray folks don't have a player that's competitive with the lower-end HD-DVD players. I'm not saying that they need to be on the same price level, but a Blu-ray player at $249 would make a lot of difference right now.
Sony and the other Blu-ray manufacturers do have to answer this price cut, and the 40GB PS3 isn't the answer (even with the free Spider-man 3). Otherwise we could be talking about Blu-ray's demise in a year's time.