In Reply to: USD 499 for the cheapest SONY PS3 is hardly Ferrari prices ! posted by Ole Lund Christensen on February 14, 2007 at 10:53:09:
<< USD 499 for the cheapest SONY PS3 is hardly Ferrari prices ! >>Not to you, maybe. But to the normal consumer it is. They can buy a DVD player for less than $50. The cheapest Blu-Ray player cost 10x as much. Most mainstream DVD titles are selling for $12 to $15 in this country. Blu-Ray titles cost 2x to 3x as much. For a normal person, this is like deciding that instead of buying a $30,000 car, they should instead buy something that costs $300,000 because it offers higher performance. And instead of paying $2 a gallon for gas (yes, I know that is absurdly cheap by world standards) that their new $300,000 car requires special fuel that cost $4 to $6 per gallon.
<< Please read your old SACD posts, from the time, when you did not make a SACD player. >>
I think it's you that needs to read them (link below). You seem to be either suffering from selective memory or senility. Here are some examples of what I actually said in that thread:
"I'm not sure that it makes sense to pay an extra $3000 for the capability to play only a handful of discs." (Kind of like the situation today for making a high-end Blu-ray player, no?)
"But none of this will change the problem with software availability. The fact remains that it is distinctly unprofitable for any major software company to release titles in the new formats." (Kind of like the situation today for Blu-ray software, no?)
"Another problem is that when we introduce a product, we would like it to have some level of longevity, say three or more years. I'm not at all sure that any of the current SACD manufacturing kits will still be available in three years. Either they would be discontinued altogether, or they would typically be replaced by cheaper ones that would require a redesign of our product." (That is something that you would have been well-served to pay more attention to when you were at Gamut. Instead of putting all of your eggs into the Philips basket and getting screwed in the process, you could have noticed all of the other companies that put their eggs into Philips basket [both SACD and CD] and got screwed.)
But since you are so keen on Blu-ray, why don't you put your money where your mouth is? Why don't you go ahead and introduce a high-end Blu-ray player? Since you are so sure that I'm wrong, I guess you'll be laughing all the way to the bank. So go ahead, prove me wrong.
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Follow Ups
- Re: USD 499 for the cheapest SONY PS3 is hardly Ferrari prices ! - Charles Hansen 12:23:28 02/14/07 (5)
- 5 years from now, we can see, who won this debate :-) - Ole Lund Christensen 10:41:30 02/15/07 (4)
- Re: 5 years from now, we can see, who won this debate :-) - Charles Hansen 16:32:10 02/15/07 (3)
- the only one hurt by your old remarks is you today :-) - Ole Lund Christensen 10:27:33 02/16/07 (2)
- You really don't get it, do you? - Charles Hansen 17:09:31 02/16/07 (1)
- you are hardly the sole source of wisdom .-) - Ole Lund Christensen 08:41:07 02/17/07 (0)