This past weekend Best Buy announced the price cut of their Insignia-branded 1080p Blu-ray player, the NS-BRDVD, down from $229 USD to $199 USD, the price point in which "mass adoption" is supposedly achieved.
Making the announcement more notable is that the Insignia player was only launched in June at $350 USD meaning it has almost been slashed in price by 50 percent in just under 4 months.
... [ read the full article ]
Please read the original article before posting your comments.
Quote:Sears? sale, kicking off Friday, Nov. 28, and running through Sunday, Nov. 30, will feature Sony?s BD Live-ready BDP-S350 for $179.99 and Samsung?s BD Live-ready BD-P1500 for $199.99, according to the ad.
The price tags represent savings of $120 on the Sony player and $100 on the Samsung player.
I don't know about the Insignia BD player but my Insignia SA DVD Recorder has worked the best and longest compared to my Sony, Pioneer, & LiteOn the only other SA recorder that has performed as well for me is my Toshiba, I don't have the LG but thought about it at one time. And as to just players like others I've had much better luck with $30 cheapies then very expensive Sony's & Pioneers. I tried to get a firmware update from Pioneer which might have fixed it's issues but that was like pulling teeth trying to deal with them. The issue isn't just regional it is a media issue as well as DRM crap Pioneer & Sony like to enforce.
I personally will not buy a $17 to $20 DVD when I can get a much better high quality BD for around $20 to $30 bucks although $30 is getting a little pricy. HD is the way to go period and if you are dumb enough to watch 320 Divx crap on your HD then shame on you, you might as well just go back to VHS. Some people will just never get it and love to live in their own misery, to which I say knock yourself out. However don't expect sympathy from others when you start wining about how cheap you are, HD is significantly better then SD.
It?s nice to see the prices coming down again I would expect to see the 2.0 standard players coming down further as well since the retail market is worried about Christmas sales already.
"A non starter for most people" now that's funny:)
