Lite-On to push HD-DVD and Blu-ray players in 2H

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Lite-On to push HD-DVD and Blu-ray players in 2H

DigiTimes news service is reporting that Lite-On will make promotion of both blue laser format products, a high priority in the second half of this year. They best hurry.. it's already here. But, the good news for us is, it looks like the pressure is already on to drop those sky high prices! How do you do that? Volume!

Lite-On IT plans to work with Toshiba to launch HD-DVD players at prices less than US$1,000 in the beginning of August while aiming to ship 50,000 Blu-ray players per month before year-end, according to the Chinese-language Apple Daily.

Wow, can we really expect this many of these players to be needed so soon? We have to wonder if this isn't going to be an interesting holiday buyer season. Let's not forget though, you will still need something to watch this high def content on, so those monitor prices will have to drop as well, or most people will not need these fancy players just yet.

Source: DigiTimes

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Posted by hazel_wu on Tuesday 11 July 2006 04:08

am i missing something here?
< $1000 for hd-dvd player is cheap while there are already $500 players?

Posted by Dr. Who on Tuesday 11 July 2006 05:49

The 500 dollar one is a stand alone this is a PC one but yea I do agree 1000 for it.

Posted by swifty7 on Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:12

they call <$1000 cheap?

give me a freaking break!!!

[edited by swifty7 on 11.07.2006 11:12]

Posted by Posterboy on Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:17

Quote: "The 500 dollar one is a stand alone this is a PC one but yea I do agree 1000 for it."

Dr. Who,

I think it is the other way round.

500$ for the PC and 1000$ for the stand alone.

Posted by sonoluca on Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:51

yes, but the real price is much more higher
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/06/23/toshiba_hddvd_player_subsidy/

Posted by lickwid on Tuesday 11 July 2006 16:11

Posterboy,
The Toshiba HD-A1 is actually $500, and even around $400 if you look in the right places. This one is the first generation standalones from Toshiba.

As far as this Lite-On one is concerned, since it's Lite-On IT, we can probably safely assume that it's for the PC, and has writing capabilities. So $1000 is about the going rate for these right now. But with more players entering the market, ala Lite-On, Pioneer, BenQ, etc., hopefully these prices will drop the to $300 within a year or so.
[edited by lickwid on 11.07.2006 16:11]

Posted by Dr. Who on Tuesday 11 July 2006 17:23

Thanks lickwid for the clarifying that. You would think the PC one writeable or not would be cheaper that the standalone. Still 1000 for a HD writer.......might as well get blue ray and be better off I think.

Posted by psychoace on Tuesday 11 July 2006 19:31

Maybe they are talking about a more high end HD-DVD player like the other model Toshiba release or was atleast supposed to release the same time the first player came out. That was supposed to be $1,000-$1,200. They might be talking about a burner but why didn't they say that if they were? They just said player.

Posted by Controller on Tuesday 11 July 2006 21:57

I guess some folks can't read. It clearly says "player", not recorder.

Posted by Flyerboy on Wednesday 12 July 2006 10:18

Price isn't everything guys...

At first these devices are way too expensive, but let's wait a while, the prices will drop rapidly when a number of devices finally become available on large scale. Just look at DVD-recorders, same happended there.

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