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Average Blu-ray Player Price Falls 6% More, PriceSCAN Says
Is anyone recommending the PlayStation 3 as the best Blu-ray player for their customers? It doesn't have RS-232 and has crappy IR connectivity, but it does have Ethernet… View this discussion thread.
PriceSCAN attributes the drop to "heavy discounting" on the Samsung BD-P1500 that dropped to $199.99, Engadget HD reported.
Electronic House, our sister publication, reported that Sony's BDP-S300 Blu-ray player is selling for $199 on Amazon.
Memorex also plans to release its MVBD-2510 Blu-ray player for $269 in November.
While all help lower the Blu-ray price index, this could also indicate a weakness in the CE market, according to PriceSCAN co-CEO and chief economist Jeff Trester.
"These sharp back-to-back weekly declines in the price of a cutting edge consumer electronics bellwether may speak to the current weakness in technology retail and bode ill for the coming holiday shopping season," Trester says.
"On the other hand, this softness should present significant bargains to those consumers doing well enough to spend."
PriceSCAN says the Blu-ray price index fell 8 percent in the preceding two weeks. Overall, the Blu-ray index has dropped 13 percent in the first three weeks of September, according to PriceSCAN.
The Blu-ray Disc Association, however, doesn't believe prices will drop anytime soon, saying prices won't fall until volume increases.
The Entertainment Merchants Association predicts Blu-ray will outsell DVD in 2012.
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Why not only include current models?! This is misleading. Of course the last gen models will drop in price. Duh.
Did this Chief Economist just begin looking at the CE marketplace? Is he not aware of the death spiral of technology product pricing that has been prevalent before the holiday’s every year since the early 80’s? Could it be that as consumers download their music they’re anticipating downloading their movies at some point rather than investing in yet another device that will be a door stop in the very near future?
Finally my dream is slowly coming to light…
PS3 = $199
stand-alone blu-ray = $99
BD-ROM = $49
BD burner w/ HDDVD-ROM = $69
I just watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on my 47” Toshiba 1080P HDTV w/ my upconverting DVD player. Looks SWEET!!!
None of those prices listed are for new CE devices that are current generation. Look at the new marantz. It is CHEAP! lol.
Looks unlikely the the Radio Shack $199 P1500’s will actually ship.