Sony jacks up the price of Blu-ray

[fvbounty]

Originally Posted by zsaz1029

Personally, I don't care about either of those features.

Me either, just listing the difference's, plus HD DVD is region free and Blu-ray isn't. It doesn't matter anymore now!

[k0NG0]

Originally Posted by FightingChance

I wondered when someone would call out this article as fud. This forum seems enjoy re-affirming their biases though.

My bias is my girlfriend... With the added bonus that it never has to shave anything.

[Gorganzola]

And in right field we have kONGO. He came out of nowhere with that one!

What would happen if you shaved a bias on the bias, eh!

Originally Posted by k0NG0

My bias is my girlfriend... With the added bonus that it never has to shave anything.

[Ford Freak]

Originally Posted by k0NG0

Blu-ray has more storage per layer. That's the single advantage (for customers; BD+ and region coding is the advantage from the studios' points of view).

I forgot about the amount of storage space. The amount of storage space doesn't bother me a whole lot though.

[sorrow]

Originally Posted by Gorganzola

Dick move ... no requirement to buy Blu-ray movies. I waited years before getting a home DVD player, I can wait years again.

Totally.

Also, it always amazes me how people freak on monopoly issues with MS but when sony does it, and they love to make their own proprietary formats, no one says a word. Shouldn't there be some huge EU conference about this stating that they are going to give billions to toshiba to start up their HDdvd line ! lol

[k0NG0]

Originally Posted by sorrow

Shouldn't there be some huge EU conference about this stating that they are going to give billions to toshiba to start up their HDdvd line ! lol

If there had been different region codes for various EU nations, you can bet there would be a smack-down coming. But since all of Europe has the same region code, the EU can't call on it and say it's unfair, because its jurisdiction is limited to EU countries only. As for price gouging, I don't know what the EU can do, but if it turns out to be systemic and an apparent strategy (right now prices went from high to even higher, as opposed to from normal to "sell a kidney") I bet some Sony execs would get a call.

[sorrow]

I wasn't really serious about wanting the EU to be involved. I personally could care less if a company has a monopoly. Typically I'm of the impression that if they make a product that is good enough and most people adopt it because of whatever reasons, they kudos to them! As much as i would like to see MS offer their OS for even a bit cheaper, i have no right to tell them to. Same goes with Sony. I just don't buy sony hehe