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greg_mitch · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 5320

WTS · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1276 Location: Calgary

So if Sony were to buy out the other side just to further the BR format are they also going to buy out the people who paid for the other formats players, now that would lawsuit material I would think, class action suite don't you think. If that happened it would make all HD DVD players obsolete on the spot. If that every happened I think Toshiba would be shotting themselves in the foot, I know I would never buy another Toshiba product if they every sold us out like that.

I agree there should only be one format so that it can get going but to sell out or worse yet to have Sony pay off more companies just make Sony look just as bad and I'd also stop buying Sony products too.

jask · Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 10187 Location: kamloops BC

Trying to look at that objectively, I keep thinking it could have been written in the BD marketing Dept. as a "canned" news item Confused

- analyst/ consultant for hire
-optimistic forecast for BD, ...6 months from now
- all the external links are BD
-this quote:
In the meantime, Toshiba is unlikely to get much more than lukewarm support from retailers, since it would be unfair to tell a customer to buy a player that has less content available than its competitor. "It's difficult to rationalize that you're being fair to the customer, if you don't tell them that the content advantage is clearly with Blu-ray," Greeson said.

Very Happy

Yeah sure,that happens with game consoles too, and Mac computers.
The content advantage will in a half year begin to be with BD, people already have the players, and most of people do not exclusively buy new releases.
- The supposition that HD will want to sell,is news to me and sounds like competitive rumor monging.Why would Sony want to pay anything for an "inferior" technology that they are crushing(in 6 months) especially when Toshiba would face huge recall of unsold product costs/lawsuits from the time they started negotiating,because it is unlikely that BD would assimilate or continue to support the HD brand/technology.

smells Biased to me.

paw · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1176 Location: Arvada, CO

I think Toshiba/Paramount/Universal need to drop the other shoe. Release a LOT of HD DVD discs and under cut the price of Blu Ray discs.

ecrabb · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:08 am Post subject:

The problem with the idea of lowering the price of the media is Toshiba can't control it - it's the studios who decide that. I suppose Toshiba could subsidize it, either by sales rebates (to the studio) or by subsidizing manufacturing costs, but the studios have no incentive to lower the price of the movies - they don't give a rip which format wins or loses... what difference does it make to them?

SC

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10270

SC, doing anything on a $150 player could not have been said a couple of days ago. So, speaking for the first two years that statement would only be possible via pipe dream. Smile