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Jazz Inmate

In Reply to: RE: That's fine, the early adopters can pay that premium price. posted by oscar on August 21, 2007 at 08:28:57

We go through this discussion every time a new technology reaches the market with competing formats.

There is nothing specific to Blu-ray or HD DVD that is innately more expensive than DVD and nothing about either format that makes it more expensive than the other in the long run. It's as Oscar said: early adopters pay a premium. Prices have come down really fast.
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RE: same for every new format - Bubba 21:45:11 08/21/07 (1)
Well, it is new technology. Blue lasers cost more than red ones. The discs are higher density and presumably there's a learning curve to producing them reliably. There's a heck of a lot more figgerin' required to turn H264 into a picture than there was with MPEG2, so the player needs to be smarter.

It isn't really expensive now. Remember laserdiscs? After being on the market for over 15 years, the players still cost around $500, and discs were over $30.

DVD has accustomed us to dirt cheap players and media. You can buy a functional player for about the same price as a new release movie. I don't think that can be said for any other format, ever, except possibly for kazoos and sheet music.
- I think Blu-ray is super cheap - Jazz Inmate 21:58:41 08/21/07 (0)
  I spent $19.99 on even the cheap DVDs when I adopted. And $24.99 on SACDs.
  
  Blu-ray is a steal.
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