Sony to drop price of standalone MSRP to less than $400

[HD Guru]

Looks like Toshiba's prices will start the clearance of 1.0 players (which was going to happen anyway due to 1.1 coming in) beginning with Sony, likely the BDP-S300.

Stan Glasgow anticipates a $100 price drop at least:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/busine...ry/193802.html

Sony Corp.’s Blu-ray DVD player will drop 20 percent or more in price this holiday season, the head of the company’s consumer electronics division said.
The price for the high-definition movie player, which produces sharper images than traditional DVD machines, will decline to less than $400 from $499.99 now, Stan Glasgow, president of Sony Electronics, said Thursday. The Sony player and HD DVD, backed by Toshiba Corp., are vying to be the new home-entertainment standard.

If it's $399 with Amazon's were to offer 12% off, which they currently do on the $499 MSRP, that would offer it for $349.99

I'm sure Samsung will beat that with the BD-P1400 and so too will Sharp with their first generation model in the weeks ahead.

[Liqwid]

wooooooo......

[Master X]

Your on a roll with blu news today.

[Treadstone]

wow, thats really not cheap at all. Nice try sony, nice try.

You should think to yourself before starting this thread..."if I have to make up some number that amazon.com will take off the already 20% off, to even make it look remotely good, well then I shouldn't post this".

[Mr. Anderson]

Whoop-dee-doo.

A day late and a dollar short.

[ack_bak]

It's coming. I think we will see $299-350 BD players this holiday season. I think they will sell well at that price. I don't expect to see anything close to $99-199 though.

[ccphilly1984]

nah, you think sony will just stand there and take a beating?

[underworldjay]

Will those 1.0 models be able to run the 2.0 features eventually?

[juventuz]

So people can pay $300+ for players that are out of date?

[Ashamed Pegasus]

In all fairness the MSRP of the HD-A2 is still $299, so if Sony drops their player to $399 we could end up seeing a Blu-ray player selling at $199 for the Christmas season... Unlikely, but still a possibility...

[ack_bak]

You guys have to remember that when Toshiba was selling the A2 for $249 or less most BD players were being sold at $600-999 in B&M stores, yet Blu-Ray kept standalone sales pretty close. Now we are most likely comparing $199 versus $350 at most B&M stores. That is not that far apart in price for most people that are willing to buy into HDM.

[Liqwid]

Originally Posted by underworldjay

Will those 1.0 models be able to run the 2.0 features eventually?

I don't think the hardware allows it, if I am not mistaken.

[Treadstone]

"if amazon drops the price 12% and walmart drops it 20% more, and best buy price matches plus 10%, then we can get one for really really cheap" Nice.

[Zombie]

Originally Posted by ccphilly1984

nah, you think sony will just stand there and take a beating?

Rather than shave some off their bottom dollar? Ummm, yeah!

[markman04]

sounds lovely.

Now, how hard have you looked for news to try and take some steam away from HDs big day, today?