I said this before and I’ll say it again: You really ought to take advantage of the availability of cheap HD DVD players, for no other reason than it’s a cheap upscaling standard definition DVD player.
And apparently many people agree, as eBay is doing a very brisk business with people picking up low cost HD DVD drives, players, and movies:
When a technology format succumbs the story usually ends right there as the marketplace has no need for dead technology. Shortly after the priests gave last rights to Toshiba’s HD-DVD format I thought I would monitor that harbor of market fluidity known as eBay to see how low – and presumably how ignored – HD-DVD player units and movies would go. I guess it is a morbid curiosity on my part to watch those who invested in the technology – some as recently as this past holiday season – bite the bullet and dump their once coveted item for the victorious Blu-ray.
I was correct in my assumption that HD-DVD owners would dump the technology. Here is something I did not expect; these players and films are finding many takers.
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I think they just came to the realization that the loser of the HD-DVD/Blu-ray war could offer the better interim value, the interim being the time it takes for high-def DVDs to replace standard-def. Yes, they are buying this decade’s version of the Betamax, but as Pai-Ling Yin pointed out there is no guarantee Blu-ray will avoid the same fate.
And that’s the message here. These consumers are buying, but they not buying Blu-ray. That should concern Sony. Instead, they are raising Blu-ray prices.
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