http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/ Engadget Comments for Philips' BDP9000 Blu-ray player now on sale http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/Feb 5th 2008 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/Oct 25th 2006 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/Oct 25th 2006 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/Oct 25th 2006 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/
And yes, once the laser diode shortage is alleviated, the economies of scale for Blu-Ray will drop the price down quickly in 2007 which will either completely overwhelm Toshiba's HD DVD or Microsoft will have to contract with Toshiba for another consumer device in order to transfer subsidy monies to keep HD DVD afloat. That is one of the purposes of the Zune* afterall.


*Built by Toshiba under contract with Microsoft.]]>Oct 25th 2006 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/
You've been bashing HD DVD from over there and you want to bring that here?

I embrace both HD DVD and Blu Ray and you are just a Sony shill. Go crawl into the dump where all the exploding Sony batteries will be buried.]]>Oct 25th 2006 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/
So essentially they are both four-manufacturer formats.

The effect of BluRay drives on HDDVD may not be AS pronounced as it is on BluRay devices but the simple fact of the mater is BluRay drives from Samsung compete with other bluray drives AND HD-DVD and vice versa.]]>Oct 25th 2006 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/
1. Blu-Ray is expensive
2. Blu-Ray doesn't have any movies that look good
3. HD-DVD Add-on is 200 dollars, With Standalone as low as 400.
]]>Oct 25th 2006 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/Blu-Ray movies are less expensive, the players are better quality (only more expensive), and have more support from world companys and Hollywood studios.]]>Oct 26th 2006 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/X360=$400+$200 no HDMI (it's doomed)]]>Oct 26th 2006 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/Oct 25th 2006 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/
I guess someone doesn't know what "economies of scale" means.

Hint, idiot: it doesn't mean dividing the pie among MORE competing suppliers.

Oh well, I sure don't come to Engadget to read the brilliant or witty commentary. What can you expect from stooges who think they'll make it big working as an intern for some Nick Denton knockoff.]]>Oct 26th 2006 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/Oct 29th 2006 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/
HD-DVD may be cheaper and may not carry the prestige of the Sony name - but lets hope the early reviewers comments are true and that the quality of the HD-DVD playback is superior to Blue-Ray and that Hollywood Studios (At least the ones not owned by Sony) see the light!

It's bad day when I realise I'm siding with Microsoft rather than Sony!


KultiVator]]>Oct 27th 2006 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/Oct 26th 2006 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/Nov 8th 2006 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.thedvdwars.com/index.cfm]]>Oct 27th 2006 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/25/philips-bdp9000-blu-ray-player-now-on-sale/Picture quality is absolutely fine on blu-ray players.
I just hope that we have right quality storage devices
like blu-ray discs available as early as possible.
And more and more movies avaible soon - that to not too expensive.]]>Nov 21st 2006 6:45AM