Sony Announces $600 Blu-Ray Player, Raises Eyebrows
- February 26th, 2007
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Sure, you could buy an upconverting DVD player to play any standard DVD at HD resolutions on your fancy HDTV. After all, they’re only about $100 new, sometimes less, and the upscaling stuff actually looks incredible. But with Sony’s latest Blu-Ray player at only $599, the idea of going truly hi-def for discs is looking good. What’s more, besides being cheaper than Sony’s $1000 previous Blu-Ray player, the new BDP-S300 will also feature CD playback. No, really!
Sure, it’s only hi-def is from Blu-Ray discs, which are more expensive than standard DVDs, and the library of compatible titles is limited, but being the first company to price a player at such a low price point is a shot across the bow of HD-DVD. By introducing a player that the average consumer could actually afford (if they wanted to), Sony has finally done something right in its latest format war-of-attrition.
Now if it can keep the prices of discs down, and get a few other studios on-board, Sony might actually win this one, something it hasn’t done with a format since the Reagan administration.
Sony announces cheaper Blu-ray player [Seattle PI]








Peter (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I just got the Toshiba HD-A2, and for $400 at amazon, it is awesome! As an upconverting player it’s the best I’ve seen, including both new Oppo players. And I watched Ant Bully and Sahara on HD-DVD last night and it was unreal.
I think this unit, if it can be found for $400 online, I’ll just have both, then be future proofed. The worst case on the toshiba that I bought, it was a $400 upconverting player, and regular DVD’s looked awesome. And in the interim I get to enjoy my HD-DVD’s that blockbuster online has.
Paul (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Ummm, the PS3 is also $600. What am I paying for in this?
Anonymous
1 year ago
I think that its not going to be good as the $1000 blu-ray they have now unless they find way to build it cheaper.
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ray (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Wow, you can tell that this site (crunchgear) is made by bunch of sony fanboys!