
Manufacturers of high-definition DVD players are slashing prices in an urgent pre-Christmas attempt to break the deadlock between two rival formats. The price falls could accelerate an end to the damaging format war.
The cost of key manufacturing components for the Sony-supported Blu-ray players and Toshiba's rival HD-DVD hardware will fall below $150 early in 2008, analysts at Understanding & Solutions, an entertainment consultancy, forecast on Wednesday.
The stakes extend beyond disc sales and could determine whether Microsoft, Apple or Sony ultimately take control of video distribution into the digital living rooms in the future.

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I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
This article is useless. It states nothing new and doesn't advance the ball. If it had said, there will be $150 Blu-rays...okay or $59 HD-DVD players...okay...but the idea that the further the format war lingers on the more people will get used to digital downloads is just plain common-sense.
Otherwise, this article says nothing. Somebody give me bubbles for stating the obvious and saving you precious time to play games. Thanks.
just the fact that hd-dvd players went down to 100 dollars and yet blu-ray still defeats it just tells me that price isnt even a factor. In my opinion the factor that can decide the format war are Consoles. Please dont question me as to why I say this all you have to look at is the PS3. Were already seeing what the PS3 is doing to the Format War. It is the Tojan Horse for Blu-ray, and theres a 80% chance that a company like WB is going BD exclusive cause of the BD disc sales.
I dont realize that's a deadlock going on in format war. All I see is one-sided pummeling.
HD-DVD players with 1080p support Toshiba HD-A30 are at $229...check pricegrabber.com
HD-DVD players with only 1080i support Toshiba HD-A2 are at $199...check pricegrabber.com
There are no $99 HD-DVD players to be found anywhere right now...that was a 1 day walmart sale.
The bluray players have dropped to $270 from Sony and Samsung...and they are 1080p and HDMI 1.3a....so HD-DVD standalone players are not that much cheaper than the bluray players...
Now the PS3 40GB is at $399...but you can get it at $299 if you use the Sony Card...so even the PS3 which is a profile 1.1 BD player is only $100 more than the cheapest HD-DVD 1080i only player.
This is why bluray is killing HD-DVD...there are over 7 million PS3 players out there...by next christmas there will be over 14 million PS3s out there and the standalone bluray players will be less than $150...there are more manufactures of standalone bluray players...there are only Toshiba in standalone HD-DVD players..
i was gonna buy the 100 dollar hddvd player, but after comparing movie catalogs and brands i went with bluray. Plus i loved my ps1 and ps2, so naturally I was getting a ps3.