Denon has announced the availability of a new Blu-ray player in North America, dubbed the DVD-1800BD which for Denon products, is at an "affordable" price point.
The company, known for outstanding quality in their DVD and Bu-ray players added that despite the price, audio and visual quality will not be compromised.
Set with a retail price of $749 USD, the player is Profile 1.1 compliant ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by nobrainer: and with it not being 2.0 what's the point?
exactly
Does anyone have an answer to that? Why buy a 1.1 BD player?
I could understand it if it was a made in china 150euros player but for an A class(theoretically) player... i just dont get it.
Except if there is an option at the near future to download a FW update.
Originally posted by nobrainer: but there is still no point in purchasing drm-ray until media has fallen to that of current dvd prices. in the UK we pay between £5 - £9 for a new film, drm-ray's atm cost £25 - £30 less for an old blu-ray that most ppl probably already own on dvd anyway.
BD is at the same price that DVD's was 8 years ago (maybe cheaper).
IMO cause the competition that BD has, Vs DVD, Vs Downloadable content, Vs SSD, Vs Piracy, i believe that we will see lower prices that DVD's ever were.
Originally posted by SDF_GR: exactly
Does anyone have an answer to that? Why buy a 1.1 BD player?.
See juankerr's post above. Some people just don't care about the currently thin and unimpressive 2.0 features available. I happen to agree with him and practically all of the web-enabled features in my HDDVD and BluRay collection remains unexplored - except those on the Heroes Season 1 set.
A recent poll at avsforums (IMO the top audio/video enthusiast board) showed that 2/3's of those who responded thought 2.0 was "not that important."
eatsushi: Weren't you the one who ordered the recycled toilet paper from the "Evan Almighty" U-Shop online store on the HDDVD?
Downloading ringtones, downloading movie trailers and buying products related to the movie isn't really my idea of a compelling online experience. The studios really need to step up their game to make BD Live worthwhile, and they have a long way to go.
Anyway, this guy on avsforums sums it up nicely:
Quote:It seems to me that the only real use for profile 2.0 is to give the HD DVD fanboys something to whine about.
Originally posted by SDF_GR: exactly
Does anyone have an answer to that? Why buy a 1.1 BD player?.
See juankerr's post above. Some people just don't care about the currently thin and unimpressive 2.0 features available. I happen to agree with him and practically all of the web-enabled features in my HDDVD and BluRay collection remains unexplored - except those on the Heroes Season 1 set.
A recent poll at avsforums (IMO the top audio/video enthusiast board) showed that 2/3's of those who responded thought 2.0 was "not that important."
I dont care too about the 2.0 profile, i dont even care about all this Audio types to tell you the truth, but IMO a player that costs around 500euros should have everything.
I have a 60gb PalPS3 from release day, and a month or so ago i wanted to buy a stand alone BD player, guess what....
i got back home with a 40gb PS3 and the BD remote control,
(*not a wise move if you live with your girlfriend) a great BD player + maybe the best upscaler + media center, with just 400something euros including the controller.
Originally posted by DXR88: yeah why is a standalone so expensive, it almost feels like price gouging in order to make people buy a PS3.
if thats affordable i would hate to see the high end blue-ray players price.
I've always felt this. If you could buy a stand alone blu-ray player with all the blu-ray features of the PS3 for $399 or less, I think PS3 sales would plummet.
quote, Set with a retail price of $749 USD, I started laughing really, you got to be shiting me, I dont care if God made it, thats a rediculous price and for a 1.1, I cannot beleive that there will be idiots out there that will pay this, but they will, so yep idiots never cease to amase me.
