| Apple = Sony Apple is acting exactly like Sony : back in the 80's, Apple always priced its Mac way too high and refused 2 stores in the same market. That's why it lost against the PC.
Sony lost with Beta but still didn't understand some basics principles : it still prices its Blu-Ray way too high.
Consumers will buy other similar but much cheapers goods. |
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| Blu-Ray players are no more expensive than DVD players were when they first came out. Hell, a PS3 gives you a good player for 400 bucks. The media is expensive but, again, so were DVDs when they were released. Since the end of the little format war the price on many BluRay moves has started to drop. It will be in normal range soon. |
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3 edits | reply to BellACancer
BDA - Blu-ray Disc Association.
»www.blu-raydisc.com/en/about/Sup···ies.html
Blu-ray is not solely Sony. 
BTW, there is no similar, cheaper products comparable to Blu-ray.
HD DVD died, remember? 
My first DVD player... that was one of those $600 - $700(more? Been a while) things - back when a dollar was worth something.
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there's a few other things affecting slow bluray sales like the pricing of higher-end (read: bigger) flat screens. even with more movies getting put out in better quality blu-ray (the first ones were barely better than regular dvd's) most people still need a tv of around 50" or bigger to hear/see a difference between bluray and an upconverting DVD player.
and most people aren't quite ready to buy the same movies that they only recently "owned today on dvd" in bluray. |
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That depends on how you define success. 
Seriously though, I would argue that gaining the most marketshare is not necessarily indicative of "winning." In that sense, Camry's and Tauruses triumph big time over BMWs and Mercedes.
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