Toshiba's BDX2000 Blu-ray deck hits Best Buy for $199, sour grapes also on sale

Man, poor Toshiba. The company's already sucked up its pride and started putting Blu-ray drives in its laptops, but here's its first stab at a proper standalone player, the BDX2000, on Best Buy shelves a bit early for $199 -- or $50 less than its announced price. Sure, that makes sense given the falling prices of Blu-ray decks as the holidays approach, but even at that price it's not super competitive with the slew of other decks out there that can do Netflix streaming. We'll see if Tosh's next efforts are a little more interesting than this, or if this is just more heartbreak than its worth.

[Thanks, Alex]

[hemmy Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:11AM]

@Altair

"outrageously" expensive ?

Bunch of horse shit, sounds like.

[chazhacker Posted Oct 27th 2009 9:34AM]

The PS3 is one of the worst Blu Ray players on the market,
All is want is a quality, stand alone blue ray player made by a decent a reputable manufacturer that i can trust.
This will be the blue ray player for me, i've always owned toshiba products and i've never had an issue.
I dont' want any of this gaming, "ohhh it's sooo easy to update!", incredibly noisy fan while playing blue ray's, sony rubbish, that most people on here seem to be using as thier girlfriends

[3dpenguin Posted Oct 27th 2009 11:43AM]

Chaz...

Actually at the time of launch the PS3 was the best player on the market, it was the only one which would be compatible with future updates, due to having the abilities to access the Internet and use advanced java so it was compatible with BD v1.1 and v2.0, and it was cheaper than many of the other ones on the market, once the HD war was in full swing it was outselling any other HD player for the fact that it was a game system, HD DVD players vs Blu-ray dedicated players HD DVD was selling 1.5-2 to 1, but since it took over a year for Sony to get the ball rolling on having a decent number of titles for the PS3 many were being used for BD Players only giving Blu-ray 2-3 to 1 advantage over HD DVD in disc sales. Now there are far better dedicated players than the PS3, which has the one of the slowest Blu-ray drive on the market now.

[barkingghos Posted Oct 27th 2009 11:20AM]

Why would I support a company that dropped me like a used ho? After I bought into Toshiba's HD DVD and then to have Toshiba drop me in favor of going to the other camp, tells me Toshiba isn't worth another dime of my money.

[3dpenguin Posted Oct 27th 2009 11:54AM]

Toshiba dropped HD DVD because in the market they only had 2 major companies producing movies for them after May of 2008, when Warner would have dropped them, Paramount would have not resigned their exclusive deal with HD DVD PRG in Oct or Nov 2008 leaving them with Universal who wasn't under any real binding contract with HD DVD PRG other than the fact that they were on the executive board for the group. Toshiba has refocused their efforts in other venues of technology since then, and probably made a deal with Sony to drop their pursuit of HD DVD after Warner went to Blu-ray in trade for a lucrative cell processor manufacturing deal giving them 2/3rds of the cell processor manufacturing in the world, now only IBM and Toshiba make Cell Processors, they also focused heavy on the Flash and SSD Media aspect of of storage. Toshiba is manufacturing Blu-ray players because it really doesn't cost them anything to do it and in the market of brand names vs second brand names Toshiba is slightly higher priced than the second brand names and is the cheapest brand name on the market (at this time) with a full Blu-ray player, the high brand name players which are cheaper are not 2.0 players. They really had no choice in the matter DVD players are dropping in price and sales, thus they need a market which will last them to their ultimate goal of Digital Distribution, because only people who still think Optical media has a chance of surviving are hard-line dreamers who don't see the trend of digital storage medias, even the industry has accepted that optical media is on its last, short, generation.