[quote name='KaneRobot']Your spelling never ceases to amaze.[/quote]
Not one grammar mistake, oh I feel totally dishonored you've insulted my terrible spelling/grammar that I hashed out on an internet message board. Plus it's helping make your point more valid right? Should I dig through your posts for any spelling/grammar errors too? I can't though because I feel so bad now, I think I'll have to commit ritual suicide. Who wants to be my second?
[quote name='KaneRobot']
Christ on a bicycle, someone is supportive of one product over another, and suddenly he's a fanboy. Overreact much? There's nothing he has said that is ridiculously out of the realm of possibility.
Being within 5-10 bucks is a "similar price." Being on sites like this has made you oversensitive to slight price differences. Hey, most of the time I feel the same way, but that's not exactly a reasonable point of view. But, ok, if you want to nickle and dime the
ing topic to death, then OMG YES, those extra few bucks are a HUGE DEALBREAKER. Man, 20 HD-DVDs later and you're in the poor house! Where did I possibly go wrong??
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I'm not jaded to saving money, just looking at the numbers. Let's put that $5-10 stat to good use. The average DVD is priced around $15-20, I think we can agree on that. So if the average next-gen DVD is priced at $5-10 more that's a price increase of 25-50%. Yep, that pricing plan sounds real similar to me, I'm way off base. It may only be a few bucks, but ask anyone with an extensive movie collection and a $4 difference in the movies you buy will add up few quickly. As for chist riding his bicycle, Ruined is the very definition of a fanboy. He posts only in those threads were he supports the product, hasn't posted a word about (or probably used) the competing product, he constantly stalks around threads or creates them making negative comments while avoiding any kind of negatvity about the one he supports. Supporting one product while bashing another (and distributing misleading info at times) to me is the definition of a fanboy. And don't try to trun that definition on me, it's not that I dislike HD-DVD or like Blu-ray, I'm pretty neutral on the whole thing and think both have advantages at this point, I'm simply arguing out that his point about pricing is faulty.
[quote name='KaneRobot']
If you're not looking for a deal on them, you'll pay more. The same goes for regular DVDs.[/quote]
True but for nearly every HD-DVD you get a deal you can get the same or even better deals on standard DVDs, sometimes even with less effort.
[quote name='KaneRobot']
Yeah, that wild, out-of-this-world coupon code was really insane. I hope they keep it simple for us in the future.
There are ways to get reasonably ($20-$25) priced HD-DVD movies. Yes, some of those ways will only be known to the dedicated/early-adopters/hardcores. The same people who research their product before buying. The same people who will know about and find those deals.[/quote]
And for the record by "weird coupon code" I was refering to the one year sustainability on the thing, makes it sound like I'm signing up for a service or something, plus you still have to buy 3 at a time. Since when was $20-25 reasonably priced for a movie anyways? VHS tapes cost that much when I was like 5 I think, laser discs maybe, perhaps the very early days of DVDs. Times change though, anything over $20 has ecome a premium. As product research, some early adopters may do that, but in my experiences I've seen very few customers research anything, early adopter or no. Alot of early adopters are people wanting the lastest tech, but don't really follow the tech scene, they just have the money to act like it.
[quote name='KaneRobot']
The average buyer doesn't have an HD-DVD player yet, so it is irrelevant.
Won't be long. Wouldn't be surprised to see some for the holiday shopping season. Amazon has plenty of both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs marked at $20, and they're the most popular online retailer. It's not exactly tricky to find a deal on discs.[/QUOTE]
If I implied it's tricky to find a deal then maybe I'm wrong. But how much are the same version of the regular DVDs going for? My guess is less, and it's even less tricky to find deals on them. This brings me down to my final point for this little argument (I'm not going into it anymore, we've gone too far off topic already), if the companies are content that this "similar pricing" will work sometime to come, then the average customer will continute to buy current gen DVDs vs. next-gen. It doesn't have the all-out, clear cut advantages that DVD had over VHS. The average guy walking into a store doesn't know the difference and at current pricing doesn't really care either. They don't know what storage means, encoding, even resolution. Those are foreign words to most people. If you can't sell the product to an average guy then it won't excel, so if the pricing trend lasts for a long time and DVDs are still around at prices being the same or cheaper, both Hd-DVD and Blu-ray may become the next last disc and just get skipped over altogether. In all honesty I doubt that'll happen (game systems help it out alot in getting to the average guy too, but saying HD is clear winner writes that off altogether) but it is a possiblity few talk about. These have to get cheaper eventually or DVd has to go away. Ruined wanted to no why it matters, or why price matters, and, at least IMO, that's why.
