--- On Mon, 4/14/08, Terry Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gnorts, Vorts!
>
> Even though Betamax was superior to VHS in many ways, the
> economic
> advantage of the VHS transport mechanism beat out the
> superior quality
> of Betamax.
>
> With the announcement by Blockbuster that it would only
> stock Blu-ray
> HD vids, Toshiba and Microsoft's HD DVD was history.
> Indeed, the
> price of those DVD's and players have plummeted.
>
> Not so for the Blu-ray players. Buy-in still runs in the
> $400 range
> with a $378 lowest price seen at Walmart. AND if you
> bought-in too
> early, you probably need a s/w or firmware upgrade in order
> to take
> advantage of the latest indexing of Blu-ray media.
>
> This shopper hit the web for advice and found the answer
> at, of
> course, Sony. You can buy the 40 GByte PS3 with a built-in
> superb
> Blu-ray capability for $399 and it even includes a WS
> Blu-ray version
> of Spidey III.
>
> And get this, not only do you get a game for free; but, I
> set it up on
> my wireless home LAN and it automatically updated the
> Blu-ray player
> (and game) to the current version.
>
> Oh, and in the words of K, "I guess I'll have to
> buy the White album
> again." My first vid purchase (other than Spidey) was
> Sir Clarke's
> 2001 in WS Blu-ray.
>
> Terry
>
> PS (pun?) In order to use a standard style remote instead
> of the game
> remote, you have to buy the Bluetooth Sony remote since the
> PS3 does
> not accept the standard universal remote.
I really hate to see Sony prevail on this. To me Sony just represents
"incompatability with everything". I avoid them whenever possible. The
decline in prices for Blu-ray equipment is likely not going to be as rapid as
we have come to expect for electronic stuff. One reason is now Sony has a lock
on the market. The other reason is those 405nm lasers aren't so cheap to make
yet and represent a disproportionate part of the manufacturing cost.
M.
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