JohnDoeUSA

Is anybody waiting for MAJOR PRICE CUTS before buying your first HD player?

My price point is

her34

i'm only buying when a winner is clear.

$200 for standalone, $300 for ps3 if blu-ray wins

to me blu-ray is the winner when universal goes neutral

Gizmo

[QUOTE=JohnDoeUSA]Is anybody waiting for MAJOR PRICE CUTS before buying your first HD player?

My price point is

DthRdrX

No, but I have decided to wait for price cuts on software. Until then I'll pick up like 1 -2 titles a month.

Superman07

I keep telling myself I'm going to wait until there is either a winner, or an amazing unified player for ~$200. However, with newer titles that I think will be amazing on next generation formats (Potter series, S1/S2, Pirates, Bond, Transformers, Superman Returns, etc.) I find it becoming increasinly difficult to dismiss Bluray as format to throw my had in the ring for.

However, I believe the sound is the strong point of the NG formats, so unless I upgrade my sound system to something that is $15k+ I may not even see those gains.

I'd be curious (once the real NG sound formats are implimented), if somebody on here could give an objective measurement with their soundsystem ($750-1200?) and give us a review between a regular dvd, NG dvd with "regular" sound and NG dvd with NG sound.

tommyp007

ugh. Not for a while at least. I need a unified player under $200 with cheaper titles.

JohnDoeUSA

I am ready to pull the tigger now but will wait for a clear winner in the format war.

What he said!

steelpotato

New Zealand $500. should be able to get one soon.

rexinnih

Not really the price point but rather I'd like all the available technology to be incorporated. A nice $300 player that can handle all the HD video and audio will be mine!

pinata242

I'm waiting to see if there's anything in the Black Friday ads for an HD-DVD player. With the A2 already close to $250 with 5 free movies, I'd be surprised to not see it < $200, even $150, by then.

The Bus

Well, if the whole Wal-Mart thing comes out as planned, I believe we'll see $199 HD DVD players by year's end. Maybe on Black Friday they will be $149 or $175.

Right now, I'm waiting on a price point for a second HD DVD player and/or a BD player. I've heard great things about the PS3 as a BD player. Now that the price is lower, I am much more interested. However, the PS2 was such a terrible DVD player that I find it difficult to imagine that the PS3 is actually good, eventhough everyone says it is. My price point for a BD player is around $399.

Honestly, I'd be moving much faster if software prices were lower. I would rather re-watch and old HD DVD or a DVD I haven't seen yet than pay $25-$30 for a new movie.

Ayre

$199 for a reliable and touted dual format player.

DVD Josh

Bus, they are completely different pieces of equipment. The PS3 is one of the best (and is THE best supported) blu-ray players there is. The upcoversion with the emotion engine is very very good. Given return policies, you should check it out for yourself, but I imagine you've read all the reviews saying the same thing.

gimmepilotwings

$249. That was why I purchased the D2 at Costco. The software is cheap enough now. If you shop around, you can get HD movies for around $10-12 a piece.

I also traded my Wii console for a PS3 for the Bluray player.

I will wait until I consistently find $10 movies (via deals) before I build up my library. I won't upgrade every movie in my library either, just the movies where the audio/video upgrades are worth it.

pro-bassoonist

400$ for a standalone BR player. We are just about there and I will own one probably in 2-3 weeks (plus I have about 100$ in BB gift certificates from my Bravia purchase). This machine plus the upconverting Oppo for my non-R1 DVDs close the circle for me.

Pro-B

Groucho

$500. Plus I should get five free movies. Plus it should play games. Ha!

The Bus

That'll never happen.

I'm convinced because I haven't heard a single thing that's wrong with it. My only nagging thought is that a comparably priced BD player comes along that does this better than the PS3 (playing BDs, upconversion, formats, etc).

Now that I think of it, I should probably sell my Wii...

Spiderbite

$200 for either HD or BR player (but that has to include some free movies). If no free movies are included - $125.

The Bus

Out of curiosity, what did everyone pay for their first DVD player? I never actually owned one, I just either used my DVD-ROM ($200, maybe), a roomate's, or a console.

pinata242

I bought my first DVD player in May of 2000 for like $300, a Sony. Got a 4 year BB plan on it and ended up getting it replaced in March of 2004 as a lemon after having it serviced 3 or 4 times for the same issue.

I'm not in a big rush to get into HD because the player prices are dropping faster than DVD did and the media is still a little high for me. Plus I already have a large library of movies and I didn't when I got a DVD player, obviously.

eatntae

All that, plus an extra game controller and gift cards to burn.

That was my price point.

matome

I think around $650-700 for an RCA 5200(?) in 1997 from The Wiz.

pro-bassoonist

399$ which was also a SONY player and which is precisely the reason I had decided that a 399/400$ price tag is when I join one of the two HD camps.

Pro-B

shumway

I bought a Sony in November of '98 for $399. I was single then, and, as such I've actually dropped the price point for adoption to $299 at most, but, I'm also waiting for the other shoe to drop. If Universal goes neutral, even though I really don't want to because of my dislike for Sony, I'll go BR.

clckworang

I think the HD-DVD players are starting to hit the sweetspot: about $250. I'd be willing to go Bluray if they could get close to that price or if the PS3 could get down to about $350.