Sony jacks up the price of Blu-ray

SRTDodge05 · 03-13-2008, 09:29 AM

SONY appears to have jacked up the price of Blu-ray players now that it has killed off HD-DVD.
Tom's Hardware is reporting that Blu-ray disk players from Samsung, Sony and Sharp are the most expensive they have been all year.
According to Pricegrabber.com a few months ago the average price for a Blu-ray player was $300. Now it is $400.
Within just the last two weeks, the average prices for LG's BH200 player and Sharp's BD-HP20U have climbed significantly.

Sony jacks up the price of Blu-ray - The INQUIRER

fvbounty · 03-13-2008, 10:30 AM

And this is a Surprise?

SRTDodge05 · 03-13-2008, 11:25 AM

Raising prices will help kill sony's own technology.

Mankal3 · 03-13-2008, 11:50 AM

I guess competition is a good thing in the business world?

SpeedDMN · 03-13-2008, 01:52 PM

Be nice if there was a way to modify a HD-DVD player to read Blu-Ray. I wonder if the PS3's have gone up as well since they only cost around $400. It's like buy a Blu-Ray player and get a console free!

TQ · 03-13-2008, 01:54 PM

Considering I paid $800 for a high-end standard def Marantz DVD/CD player less than a year ago $400 sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

maraud · 03-13-2008, 02:18 PM

As more mfg's start to flood the market with blu-ray models the prices will drop ala cd and dvd. This is only for the rich got to have it right now crowd. The rest of humanity can wait for the flood of product and lower prices.

sorrow · 03-13-2008, 02:22 PM

Ya this is awesome! I love sony! lol

SRTDodge05 · 03-13-2008, 03:25 PM

I wont buy anything sony has to offer anymore, been about 3years so far.

ATINUT · 03-13-2008, 05:30 PM

I was considering getting a Panasonic Blu Ray player sometime after I get my HDTV, but not anymore.

My Panasonic Upconvert DVD Player will do me just fine.

**k0NG0** · 03-13-2008, 05:47 PM

Well knock me over with a feather...

**Gorganzola** · 03-13-2008, 06:15 PM

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

sammy2066 · 03-13-2008, 07:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SRTDodge05

Raising prices will help kill sony's own technology.

With the loss of HD-DVD, there's only one HD format. Which means someone who dropped a bomb on that 46" 1080P screen, is going to want to put it to good use. Also, obsessive compulsive technology freaks, like most of us here who've gotta have the latest and greatest represent a downward sloping and extremely inelastic demand curve.

Sony with it's fresh monopoly on the HD format knows this, and will act exactly like a monopolist. It will produce where it's Marginal Cost of the next unit equals the Marginal Revenue, but artificially reduce the supply to make sure demand far outstrips it and keeping prices high. But people still buy PS3s and Blu-Ray players because of their inelastic demand.

If only we'd have been satisfied with DVD.

FearFactory · 03-13-2008, 07:36 PM

Nice... long live the DVD!

XJ. · 03-13-2008, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maraud

As more mfg's start to flood the market with blu-ray models the prices will drop ala cd and dvd. This is only for the rich got to have it right now crowd. The rest of humanity can wait for the flood of product and lower prices.

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