Gizmodo
With the LocationFree getting delayed, the possible PS3 ship date miss, the PS3 controller complaints, the laptop battery troubles, and now the Blu-ray BDP-S1 player being delayed, could this be the worst quarter Sony's ever had? Well there was that quarter where they sold poison-coated pacifiers back in the '80s, but this is probably a close second.
The December 4 release date push may be bad news bears for Blu-ray lovers, but it also could mean Sony wants every available Blu-ray diode in its PlayStation 3 consoles, making a PS3 release slip less likely. Also, if the BDP-S1 doesn't actually make it out for Xmas, the Samsung BD-P1000 and Panasonics' DMP-BD10 may be the only Blu-ray players available this holiday season. Other than the PlayStation 3, of course.
Sony's Blu-ray Player Delayed Yet Again [Home Theater Blog - Thanks Kevin!]
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blue-ray is dead to me.
I'm starting to wonder how much of Sony's recent delay problems (umm..the ones in the past month or so...not the ones that've been going on for the last year...err, 30 years) are due to all the money they're missing thanks to the battery recalls.
I don't care how big Sony is...seems to me like having $430 million unexpectedly removed from the profits might suddenly limit resources for getting the final development done on new products.
Guys, what's with bolding the last sentence of every post?
3 major delays by Sony. People are going to begin to wonder how viable Sony is. Besides I'm waiting on the combo players to hit the street next year. Then will I dive in and make my 1080P set scream with 1920x1080 goodness!
Eh, no one was gonna buy it anyways. PS3 is still the cheapest Blu-ray player. They really should just get rid of the BDP-S1 entirely or make it a hellova lot cheaper, cuz it would be officially retarded if someone spent 1000 bucks on the BDP-S1 and ignore the 500-600 dollar PS3 Blu-ray player.
It's all the cheat commandos fault.
"Crush the cheat commandos!" - Blue Laser Commander.
The 'PS3 as a Blu-ray player' this holiday looks grim. The supply is disappearing even before they hit store shelves: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aUar.W...
Feel free to stop perpetuating your "PS3 may miss launch" rumor. The Kotaku article clearly shows that the quote you guys jumped on is referring to launch NUMBERS, not the launch date itself.
You can't really say that the ps3 is "availible" with only a handful even able to be produced.
heh...yeah, the PS3 is the "cheapest blueRay player" if you can find it in stores...otherwise, it's probably $2000 on ebay, and therefore one of the most expensive.
And people are actually waiting for this shit? Blu Ray is dead people. HD DVD all the way!!!
And the PS3 is the cheapest because they're counting on you buying PS3s to play games, not movies or Linux... it probably is cheap because it's heavily subsidized. Though, I suppose if lots of people buy blu-ray because of this, Sony may hurt some more when those same don't buy games. (See PS2 release - wildly successful due to it's good DVD playback capability and price... which is what it was used for often, moreso than playing games).
(OTOH, stores seem to be set up for HD-DVD to fail - they give the HD-DVD section as little space as possible, while the Blu-Ray section is as big as possible, even though this leads to HD-DVDs being awfully crowded because of the number of releases, while Blu-Ray has many rows of duplicated movies because otherwise it won't fill the shelf.)
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