ianh64
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It seems to me that Sony have some what shot them selves in the testicles. Not only are they promising to build a capable blu-ray player but they also intent to release it with an inbuilt games console, albeit, compared with HD-DVD with a heafty price tag.
So what will persuade the likes of Pioneer, Samsung, Denon or Marantz to make unsubsidised standalone blu-ray players in the future when Sony have already cornered the market and taken first grabs at most of the components required to build such a player? And if there is no possibility of economically building a fully functional blu-ray player with picture quality and price to match that of other rival formats, then there is only one other logical format to support and that is HD-DVD.
So if Denon and Marantz follow the likes of Toshiba and all the other members of the DVD forum, what future does blu-ray hold? Or is it simply intended as a games format for pubescent teenagers?
So what will persuade the likes of Pioneer, Samsung, Denon or Marantz to make unsubsidised standalone blu-ray players in the future when Sony have already cornered the market and taken first grabs at most of the components required to build such a player? And if there is no possibility of economically building a fully functional blu-ray player with picture quality and price to match that of other rival formats, then there is only one other logical format to support and that is HD-DVD.
So if Denon and Marantz follow the likes of Toshiba and all the other members of the DVD forum, what future does blu-ray hold? Or is it simply intended as a games format for pubescent teenagers?