Consumer electronics maker Toshiba Corp said on Monday it is slashing prices of its HD DVD format players by between 40 to 50 percent as major Hollywood studios move to embrace Sony Corp's Blu-ray format high definition DVDs. Toshiba America Consumer Products said it cut prices of its HD DVD players effective January 13 to boost market adoption of its next-generation DVD players by mainstream consumers after what it said was a successful fourth quarter in unit sales.
"While price is one of the consideration elements for the early adopter, it is a deal-breaker for the mainstream consumer," said Toshiba executive Yoshi Uchiyama in a statement. Toshiba's players will now start as low as $149 going up to $399 for the top-of-range player.
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"While price is one of the consideration elements for the early adopter, it is a deal-breaker for the mainstream consumer," said Toshiba executive Yoshi Uchiyama in a statement. Toshiba's players will now start as low as $149 going up to $399 for the top-of-range player.
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To Warner Bros, These are what the customers really want:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics
The A3 sales are raising up dramatically & is #4 in Amazon's best sellers & even surpassing all the ipods except for the 4GB nano..
Again am not a fan boy, but for the best of the Customers:
Long Live HD-DVD
Last edited by Sam.. on 15 Jan 2008 - 12:47
Then you would know Blu-ray is not Sony.
Panasonic (most IP)
Pioneer
Philips
Sharp
Hitachi
Samsung
LG
What's best for the customer is a product that offers a wide variety of hardware & software. Not a Toshiba monopoly.
Why didn't they do this 4 months ago? Well these prices are below cost! Not the cost to make the machine but to payoff the many dollars it costs to design and create new things, all those engineers and test machines do not come cheap. They can most likely afford to make these units and sell at these prices but right now no one is paying off the huge hole hd-dvd put in Toshiba's pocket over the last decade.
Asked about advertising, she just said they dont advertise as it advertises itself, what kind of answer is that?
Sony did release a computer burner but at 800 it did not last long on most retailers shelves.
Sadly the war is over folks. By this time next year you're have Blu-ray or DVD to choose from.
I guess I have a reason to buy a rotten PS3 now so I won't feel quite as bad since I was considering picking one up for one stupid game I'm interested in (Little Big World). Maybe MS will iron out details of how they will swallow licensing from Sony before then and offer a blu-ray tack on player.
It's you're*. If you're* going to call someone a retard, try not to look like one yourself.
Your=possessive; yours ("Did you enjoy your day off?", "How's your new computer?"
You're=You are; (If you're going to eat all the pie, I'm going home", "You're such a moron."
Why do people want a Toshiba monopoly anyways!? Atleast with Blu-Ray many companies own it and are making players for it. HD-DVD is Toshiba versus Toshiba.
Here is the list of HDDVD titles that are due for release this year so far, and I have to say that there isnt anything ( with the exception of some Clint Eastwood titles ) that I want anyway....
http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/releasedates.html
Any owner that does get stuck at an older profile(the very few) will still be able to watch the main feature anyways.
Many people have made silly decisions, some bought Blu-Ray 1.0 or 1.1 only capable players, the same amount of people bought HD-DVD. All of these people might get caught out in the future. Atleast the Blu-Ray players will be able to play movies released in the future. Silly people were always going to exist, that can't be helped. The PS3 is an awesome Blu-Ray(and DVD) machine and there is no real reason to not use it as a primary player for movies.
Blu-Ray supporters:
HD-DVD supporters:
These players are good investment all around because they are top-of-the-line SD DVD upscalers and are priced the same as regular upscalers, so even if HD-DVD dies you can still use them as DVD upscalers while you wait a couple years for Blu-Ray players to drop to an affordable price.
I don't "support" blu-ray but, I am giving up on HD_DVD. It's dead, jim.
Ditto here. Mine does such a good job that it makes me wonder if I even need HD!
Besides, what kind of joke is going from "the look and sound of perfect" to the "look and
soundof upscaled is just fine"?Last edited by Julius Caro on 15 Jan 2008 - 20:22
So in the end, its a sad desperate attempt at surviving from Toshiba.
Component is more than capable of doing 720p and 1080i. Most dvd upsclaers support this method of output. That said I use HDMI myself.
They could do it and take a profit-leading loss, or cut up to 1/2 and still make a profit. Before the lack of support they could have just claimed cost per unit fell due to high sales. But now it just looks like they were gouging users.
Is the TV show "Lost" or "Loost"?
(amazed how many times the word is misspelled and by how many)
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