Warner Home Video has announced the launch of aggressive pricing cuts on its Blu-ray catalog beginning in the Q4 of this year.
Starting September, Warner will begin offering a "point-of-sale rebate program" meaning retailers will be able to order a number of catalog tiles for as low as $11 USD.
Even with expected retail mark-up, the new prices will sure to be a steep discount from ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by Tecbot: I know everyone wants a free player with free movies all the time but wtf do normal people spend there money on that $300 is a unreachable and unrealistic price for the next generation format.
Originally posted by varnull: Unlike you SDF I have some principles. I don't support M$ and I don't support $ony. I will stand against any company which seeks total monopoly, be that by format,design, bribery or any other anti consumer method.
Both are companies who destroy competition and abuse their position. As a paid up member of EFF and the FSF I think it's clear what I would rather spend my money on thanks.
Most people see them as enemys , i dont see it like that, they are both in to this, and both are fixing up things, prices etc.
Originally posted by varnull: Your post is totally irrelevant to the discussion and completely off topic. Where does the xbox come into this debate? err.. It doesn't.
It does, you just didnt got it.
It was just an example that when people spend their money in something like XB or PS3, HDDVD or BD they can change their minds and change course cause they see it like a competition, like a team.
Originally posted by sdf: "I've spend my money to NONAME company so the other one is evil."
All these years MS cause windows was the company of antichrist, now that they have released xbox all the sudden is the good ferry.
Originally posted by varnull: You will find I am no friend of Microsoft, but I suppose if they offered me enough money I could be swayed.
I am not either and i am not sony's friend either, even tho that most staff in my house are sony, but i can not accept that sony is the evil one and all the others arent, all comes down to money.
If it wasnt sony it would be toshiba or mitshubishi or what ever. (back on topic) Sony and BD did what movie studios asked for, if HDDVD was the wining format, movie studios would have asked a copy protection system from them too.
Lets hope that even tho that BD is loaded with locks they got the picture and noticed that the best way to beat piracy is low prices, and if warner is willing to, other will follow.
I'd expect no-one to be leaping into a high def disc based format right now. I suspect both groups that backed each format have been looking at events with deep disappointment, if not surprise at how little public demand there has been for high def (of either flavour) when it came to it.
For those that wanted a 'Rolls Royce' high def (with image and audio quality as good as it can possibly be) there is to be nothing but disappointment and/or high margin pricing.
Dolby 5.1 (vanilla 'digital', not 'plus', version) and VC-1 is going to be 'it' by download (even Sony are offering not 1 but 2 such services, on their PS3 & Bravia HD TVs).
Any of the other options have for various reasons, rightly or wrongly, either fallen away (like HD DVD did) or just aren't selling enough to genuinely excite anyone and/or justify the costs
(which is where Blu-ray currently is).
It was fun while it lasted but disc based movies in high def will not be going mass-market.
Similarly those who keep on mouthing the phrase 'sub $200 Blu-ray players' are dreaming. They are not here and will not be here for some time yet (Q3/4 2009?).
Blu-ray is still overwhelmingly a PS3 format. Great idea to give it a starting boost but they never did work out how to transform from that niche to the mass-market in anything like a serious timescale.
You could have had HD DVD slide in seamlessly as the next big deal - particularly with combo & Twin Disc - but you (those PS3/Blu-ray fanboys amongst us) cheered on the industry as it rigged the market in favour of it's preferred (higher margin/high 'security') format.
Originally posted by Tecbot:wow price drops on movies and people still bicth and complain like it was their actual job, same thing happened when players kept coming down and coming down there like $300 now.
I know everyone wants a free player with free movies all the time but wtf do normal people spend there money on that $300 is a unreachable and unrealistic price for the next generation format.
People cry about drm the only reason they do is because it is the one thing that is blocking them from stealing the product...sure we can say get rid of it but im more for a society that doesnt support a bunch of thieves. i think people have been brainwashed into stupidity from all the music theyve been stealing over the years that they think its there right to get free music and movies whenever they want.
No people complain because SecureRom I believe is one of the ones that was damaging people's computers and stuff. As for it being blocking someone from stealing. Yeah that's why Spore along with other DRM stuff has been leaked out before the official release has even been released.
