Samsung Quietly Drops the Price of Blu-Ray Disc Player

Samsung Quietly Drops the Price of Blu-Ray Disc Player

Daniel Fleshbourne on 11 December 2007 - 10:33 · 16 comments & 9576 views

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Samsung Electronics, a leading maker of various equipment, has quietly started to sell its BD-P1400 Blu-ray disc (BD) player for $299 in certain locations. The decision moves Blu-ray format into the same price range as HD DVD players from Toshiba that support 1080p output and may pose a serious threat to the standard pushed by Microsoft and Toshiba.

At press time Amazon.com, Best Buy, Circuit City and Costco offered Samsung BD-P1400 players for $299, which is tangibly below the official manufacturer suggested retail price of $499 for the device, reports HighDefDigest web-site. Unfortunately, it is still not completely clear whether the price slash is temporary, or end-users will be able to get the BD-P1400 for $299 going forward too.

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(2 replies) #1 Fubar on 11 Dec 2007 - 10:49

wow thats pretty cheap , considering warner "might" be going blu-ray only i think HD-DVD will be dead in the water soon touch wood

#1.1 joeydoo on 11 Dec 2007 - 18:23

Warner "might" be going HD DVD exclusive. Not Blu-Ray exclusive. They can't get all their PiP features to work on Blu-Ray's crappy setup.... Sony are even taking a while on updating the PS3 for 1.1 profile compliance, that's how much of a pain it is.
You only need load of some of the games or menus which use some of the more "advanced" Blu-Ray features to see how slow and inefficient it is.
Warner have favoured HD DVD from the beginning.

#1.2 +DrCheese on 11 Dec 2007 - 18:32

No, the HD-DVD advantage is all moot now that profile 1.1 is compulsory for new players, Also warner's releases that are on both formats have always sold more on BD so they would be throwing that away.

(2 replies) #2 bibutteryboy on 11 Dec 2007 - 11:31

why are people buying either format?

#2.1 Fubar on 11 Dec 2007 - 11:35

Quote - (bibutteryboy said @ #2)

why are people buying either format?

well personaly i find that Bluray is a better format and i guess they dont want to wait around for microsoft to start pushing disposable media in their faces aka downloadable media you can only watch a few times then pay to see again lol

#2.2 sin-ergy on 11 Dec 2007 - 11:44

Because consumers decide the winner?

#3 +majortom1981 on 11 Dec 2007 - 12:24

I thought it was rumoured that warner bros was going hd-dvd only due to one of these payouts.

#4 Jugalator on 11 Dec 2007 - 13:18

Yum. That IS cheap.

#5 ]SK[ on 11 Dec 2007 - 13:58

I would like to see BD win, but it needs to happen soon so we can all just get on with life and start buying HD films in the right format. How long must this take?

#6 TSThomas on 11 Dec 2007 - 17:39

Depends on who you listen to really... I can't count how many posts I've read stating why Warner are going Blu-Ray only, or going HD DVD only

It's good to see prices coming down for Blu-Ray hardware at last, though for now I still prefer HD DVD - Region free, cheaper hardware, full spec. from the start (None of this Profile 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 BS that Blu-Ray has going on; current Blu-Ray players will be obsolete within a year when Profile 2 becomes mandatory, much like Profile 1.0 players are with Profile 1.1s introduction).

Last edited by TSThomas on 11 Dec 2007 - 17:46

(1 reply) #7 nemo on 11 Dec 2007 - 18:20

http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/11/samsu...er-dips-to-270/

#7.1 +Lewism on 11 Dec 2007 - 20:15

Nice!

(1 reply) #8 ishtar on 11 Dec 2007 - 23:27

who gives a crap about blu ray I have the xbox 360 hd dvd and the picture quality is excellent its you gay station fanatics who march to sonys beat losers

#8.1 +nezermundy on 11 Dec 2007 - 23:52

who gives a crap about hd dvd I have a playstation 3 and the picture quality is excellent its you gay xbox fanatics who march to microsofts beat losers....

Grow up!

#9 TruckWEB on 12 Dec 2007 - 00:29

Well, this is a Profile 1.0 player, so it's quite normal that they would want to sell it for cheap.

I'll keep my HD-DVD on my Xbox360 for now.... The only Blu-Ray player that I would buy is a Sony PS3.

#10 +Octol on 12 Dec 2007 - 06:20

I'll be happy when Samsung further drops the price of its BD-UP5000 dual format player – which has already dropped from $999.00 to $799.00.

I'll be even happier when I can actually buy one of these things somewhere at any price!

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