Price Reduction Continues on High-Def Players
Posted by Dave Cowl
closeAuthor: Dave Cowl
Name: Dave Cowl
Email: dave@formatwarcentral.com
Site: http://www.blu-raystats.com
About: Originally from New Zealand, Dave now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Dave's day job
involves developing high resolution LCoS projectors.
Dave also has a strong interest in cinema and film making, and has
always been an early adopter - he still uses his Sony DVP-S7000 DVD
Player and also owns first generation Blu-ray, HD DVD and DTheater
D-VHS equipment.
Dave has been following the HD Disc format war since the beginning,
which resulted in the Blu-ray Statistics and HD DVD Statistics
websites, designed to track the studio progress with features as they
have released HD media product.See Authors Posts (349) on December 21, 2007
Filed Under: Blu-ray, Format War, HD DVD, Studios
A report on Home Media Magazine notes that the price continues to fall for HD Disc players.
The article notes that we should see sub-$300 across the board next year, and predicts less than $100 by 2011, based on a report from the research firm Understanding & Solutions.
The same report apparently notes that software market share is due to studio support and that the move by Viacom to go HD DVD exclusive has ‘failed to turn the market’.
They also hint at ‘format clarity in 2008′. Predicting ‘format clarity’ seems to be the in thing.
No related posts.
A bit unrelated, but I just saw this on Video Business…I’m kind of surprised to see Potter HD outpacing the BD version.
http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6515097.html
Well, if you believe that Spiderman 3 only sold 30k in the first week, I guess the rest of the claims by Universal are equally credible… Personally I will wait for the Home Media Magazine report on the Videoscan numbers to see how the Potters compared.
An interesting follow up. The article was wrong and has been corrected. The reporter took responsibility. Personally I think she was fed bad information… still she should have made sure it was correct. As expected, Potter sold better on BD than HD DVD according to Videoscan.