HD DVD Dies, Blu-ray Prices Rise

By Christopher Nickson
March 14, 2008

As HD DVD bit the dust, the average prices on Blu-ray players rose last month.

It’s an interesting phenomenon. Just last month Toshiba gave up the good fight on behalf of HD DVD. Since then the average price of Blu-ray high definition DVD players – now the only game in town – have risen between $20-50. Information Week checked prices on comparison site Price Grabber and discovered that in January the average price of the top 10 Blu-ray players stood at $467. A month later it was $604. Whoa! What’s going on there? It tunrs out that some of it is a blip, due to new players with better features arriving on the market. But even factoring those out, the average price on Blu-ray players still rose between $20 and $50 last month. Darren Davis, VP of marketing for Price Grabber, suggested that manufacturers would do themselves a favor by ...

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