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analog · 11-05-2007, 11:06 AM

Sony can't market or maintain their media formats to save their lives. As xepherys pointed out, lots of Sony media formats have crashed and burned.

Perfect example:

I'm looking through the advertisements in Sunday's paper (yesterday) and 3 different stores are selling the same two high-definition DVD players... an HDDVD player, running $300, and a Sony Blu-ray player, running $700. Sony's equipment has been significantly more expensive since the start (also see PS3) and isn't showing any signs of coming down to compete with HDDVD.

HDDVD will win- but for the immediate purchase, get a good upconvert player unless you really want to spend $300 for an HDDVD box which will likely be $200 by the spring.

11-05-2007, 11:06 AM	#9 (permalink)
analog Banned	Sony can't market or maintain their media formats to save their lives. As xepherys pointed out, lots of Sony media formats have crashed and burned. Perfect example: I'm looking through the advertisements in Sunday's paper (yesterday) and 3 different stores are selling the same two high-definition DVD players... an HDDVD player, running $300, and a Sony Blu-ray player, running $700. Sony's equipment has been significantly more expensive since the start (also see PS3) and isn't showing any signs of coming down to compete with HDDVD. HDDVD will win- but for the immediate purchase, get a good upconvert player unless you really want to spend $300 for an HDDVD box which will likely be $200 by the spring.