#27 Blu-Ray players are not out yet because they are just the "movie" players... the entire time they have been mostly working on copy protection. More than anything HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are coming into the picture to give movie studios a better form of copy protection... that is why neither of them are out yet... which of course is a complete waste of time... people will find ways around whatever copy protection they put into these discs.
Blu-Ray has been around since 2003... besides the PS3 will KILL the Blu-Ray format... if Sony makes the price of the PS3 around $700 NO ONE will buy a stand alone Blu-Ray player for $1000... they will alienate other hardware manufacturers if they set the price that low. If they set the price of the PS3 too high they will price themselves out of the market for the typical gamer and Blu-Ray will still fail.
Look at UMD's... how many other manufacturers make a UMD player??? Sony doesn't even make one... the because you can get a PSP for less than $200.00... there is no money to make in creating a hardware device that can play UMD's... studios are already scaling back movies releases on UMD and I am sure before too long the only movies released on it will be Sony Pictures movies.
People don't need Blu-Ray for its storage capacity... they need it to watch HD movies... something the HD-DVD camp already knows and will most likely cater to much better.
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#27 Blu-Ray players are not out yet because they are just the "movie" players... the entire time they have been mostly working on copy protection. More than anything HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are coming into the picture to give movie studios a better form of copy protection... that is why neither of them are out yet... which of course is a complete waste of time... people will find ways around whatever copy protection they put into these discs.
Blu-Ray has been around since 2003... besides the PS3 will KILL the Blu-Ray format... if Sony makes the price of the PS3 around $700 NO ONE will buy a stand alone Blu-Ray player for $1000... they will alienate other hardware manufacturers if they set the price that low. If they set the price of the PS3 too high they will price themselves out of the market for the typical gamer and Blu-Ray will still fail.
Look at UMD's... how many other manufacturers make a UMD player??? Sony doesn't even make one... the because you can get a PSP for less than $200.00... there is no money to make in creating a hardware device that can play UMD's... studios are already scaling back movies releases on UMD and I am sure before too long the only movies released on it will be Sony Pictures movies.
People don't need Blu-Ray for its storage capacity... they need it to watch HD movies... something the HD-DVD camp already knows and will most likely cater to much better.