With a little luck the Funai players will be under $199 at retail for Christmas- that would bode well for the future of HDM! I think they will have to be under $200 to be competitive if the 350 is $299 and the 550 is $399.
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"Besides, pay-offs DO happen. Just look at what Paramount and DreamWorks did last year. Anyone who doesn't think that such things happen all the time is a little naive. This is business, and it's about making money. Backroom deals get made all the time. You can call such things pay-offs, or marketing incentives, or project investment capital or what have you. Such is life."
-Bill Hunt, on blu-ray.com when asked about speculation of a Whorener Bros. payoff
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