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Blu-ray/HD DVD... Who is winning? (Page 153)
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Originally Posted by aristotles 
Toshiba faces 986 million dollar loss on HD-DVDs
We told you so! So many times BD supporters told HD DVD supporters that their "cheap" HD DVD players were being sold below cost but you called us liars and FUDsters. The Blu-ray insiders knew how much the hardware would cost even on the HD DVD side.
A loss of almost a billion on sales of 700,000 standalone players globally is proof that they were selling players at a loss for most of the format war.
To expect to buy a High Def player at this early stage for under 200 while not on sale is an unrealistic expectation.
Somebody is seriously confused. Loss on the technology ≠ hardware manufacturing costs.
Obviously it didn't cost Toshiba $1400 to build each HD DVD player. Or perhaps you're now trying to claim that Toshiba didn't pay off any of the studios, didn't pay anything for their advertising etc, and their employees worked for free in developing HD DVD?
You also seem to forget the price of the Venturer player - $199.99. They're a manufacturer that wasn't encumbered by any real development or advertising costs. And they didn't have to pay off any studios.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
ECHO... ECHO... ECHO... 
Originally Posted by goMac
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Originally Posted by exca1ibur
ECHO... ECHO... ECHO...
Kinda hard to keep up with this thread.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
I think the real reason is that because all the xmas promotions are over. The disks themselves are getting cheaper and cheaper though.
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Philips: $349 Blu-ray Player Going to $399
Bromley said the $349 price in the January press release was a "typo."
Bromley was then reminded that scores of publications had written about the $349 price last January -- and that Philips had never issued a correction saying the price should be $399.
After that conversation, she called TVPredictions.com back and said the $349 price was not a typo after all. Actually, she said, the price had changed sometime after it was originally set at $349.
Bromley said she did not know why Philips decided the price had to be raised to $399, but she said it definitely had nothing to do with HD DVD departing.
Yeah, right...
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Will Microsoft continue to sell the HD DVD add-on?
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Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES
It will likely eventually come.
Mind you, I don't want one either (unless it's 79 bucks or something in 2009).
(Last edited by Eug; Mar 13, 2008 at 09:59 PM
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Originally Posted by exca1ibur
wow thanks! I just got it
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I love the U.S., but we need some time apart.
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
Will Microsoft continue to sell the HD DVD add-on?
They discontinued it two weeks ago.
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Originally Posted by Eug
Bromley said she did not know why Philips decided the price had to be raised to $399, but she said it definitely had nothing to do with HD DVD departing.[/i]
Yeah, right...
Screw them all.
I'm holding off until the prices come down. And many others will.
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I think you guys will be surprised. I think HD-DVD will make a come back in the 3rd quarter of 2008.
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Batman Begins on Blu-ray Disc July 8
Two Blu-ray editions are in the works: a single-disc version at $28.99, and as part of a limited-edition gift set at $49.99. The gift set also includes a Batman Begins motion art lenticular, exclusive photos, script pages, storyboards, five collectible Batman Begins postcards and $7.50 in movie cash toward a Dark Knight ticket. Both the standalone version and gift set Blu-ray releases include an exclusive comic book prologue to The Dark Knight.
Warner also will re-release Batman Begins on DVD, re-packaged as a $39.92 gift set that includes a 128MB Batman flash drive, the collectible postcards and movie cash. A Warner spokesperson said the DVD includes all the content from the 2005 two-disc special edition DVD set.
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