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Studios appear committed to lower prices on Blu-ray disks, according to an analysis of the market by Josh Dreuth at Blu-ray.com:

Since late last year, studios have been reevaluating their Blu-ray strategy in order to speed up consumer adoption of the format. Sure, Blu-ray sales have continued to rise since the beginning of the year, but studios want the high definition format to replace DVD, not commingle with it. DVDs no longer provide studios with the buckets of money they used to, and rampant piracy in Asia and South America are robbing them of bottom line cushion.

I disagree with his view that Blu-ray players have also come down enough in price. Appealing prices can be found, but they're not on cutting-edge players with all the features. Still, it's good to see studios figuring out that high prices threaten to kill Blu-ray in the face of growing competition.

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I've been relying on a tracking site to snag Blu-Ray movies when they're loss leaders on Amazon. The website is http://creditrabbit.com/tracker it's pretty simplistic, but it gives me the info I want. It'll be nice when prices are cheaper at Brick and Mortar stores, too.

Thomas M of CA 8:03PM February 12, 2009

Disc prices aside, I wish the players' prices would settle down. Prices for the best 'popularly-priced' models from Panasonic, Sony and (to a lesser degree) Samsung have been up and down (on the Internet) recently. Panasonic's recent financial troubles may be the reason for their top player almost doubling in price over the last few weeks. Closing plants worldwide has an effect on their pricing. Maybe supply and demand is the final arbiter after all. Toshiba's example with HD DVD won't work for most other manufacturers in the Blu-ray marketplace with the WORLD economy being what it is right now. The US TV digital transition is also impacting spending choices for those not afraid to spend money on consumer electronics.
Movies on BD are expensive, and again, consumers will be choosing wisely as we spend. Many writers to the popular A/V magazines are making the case for DVD played on up-converting DVD players being 'just as good' as BD. No way! Having gone from Beta to S-VHS to DVD to D-VHS to HD DVD to Blu-ray, there's no denying that each step was a step up. In each case, the software was more expensive until (if) the format really took off.
The current state of the WORLD economy may derail BD on both the hardware and software fronts. Hollywood is no less greedy than all the other components of our recent economic noose. At least the prices of in-the-vault titles should be low. Surely 'Gone With The Wind' or even "Star Wars' have made tons of maoney for Hollywood. Why shouldn't those (and many others) be inexpensive on Blu-ray.

LB of DC 7:10PM February 12, 2009

Are you guys seriously posting news items from hacks like Blu-ray.com? That guy is a moron and so is everyone else on their staff.

Linny of MN 10:34PM February 11, 2009

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