Some of you may remember my earlier rants about the demise of HD DVD and the future of High Definition. In them I made a bunch of predictions, some of which turned out to be a bit bone-headed. I received plenty of flak for those opinion pieces; some of it justified, most of it… not so much. It was therefore quite heartwarming to read some of the news articles published during the past week.
Remember how I wrote that consumers would have been better off with HD DVD? And how the ending of the format war would be bad for the consumers? According to an interview published at Betanews, analysts at market research firm ABI Research are of the same mind.
One of my more bone-headed predictions had to do with Blu-ray players getting more expensive if Toshiba/HD DVD drops out of the war. I was at the time suffering from a severe flu and running a high fever, which might have something to do with not thinking things through properly.
But guess what? Los Angeles Times published an article which says pretty much the same thing. The article interviews Richard Doherty, research director of technology consulting firm Envisioneering Group, who says that we might see prices of Blu-ray players going up this summer.
I wonder if Mr. Doherty was feeling a bit feverish while giving that interview… :)
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In Finland, huge customer retailer of HD DVD had yesterday dropped the prices of HD DVD by 50%. Retailer is Kodin Ykkönen and probably also Anttila. Remaining HD DVD drives for Xbox 360 were sold at Prisma Hämeenlinna at 30 eur / pc!!! They are now all sold out…
Tommi
Yup, the entire Anttila chain is selling the rest of their stock of HD DVDs at 50% discount.
The prices of Blu-ray -players are already going up:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/12/lack-of-competition-sends-blu-ray-player-prices-upward/
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