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"Keith G" wrote:

"MiNe 109" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Keith G" wrote:



Hah! Prompts me to post this heads-up for anyone wanting to go Blu-ray
(not
region-free though):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-BDPS360...p/B0027FFX4O/r
ef=
sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1261674720&sr=1-1

I've just grabbed one of these - 40 quid cheaper than they were a week or
so
ago and still 20 quid cheaper than other online sellers who currently
list
them but probably haven't got any!

Yes, those prices are dropping. That success would be unimaginable
without the widespread availability of hi-def tv displays.


Absolutely. You could almost go further and say HD *will* succeed because
it's fast becoming the case that there's no available alternative!

The market for standard definition analog tvs in the US has evaporated.

Happy punters (lots and lots) means more to even consumer electronics
*Ubergiants* than impressing a handful of techno****s with flashy specs
and
unnecessarily 'audiophile' componentry....

Doesn't mean you can't have both! Bose and Bang and Olufsen probably
have happy customers.


Ooh, but can they though - produce for both ends of the 'hifi buying'
spectrum, that is?

Maybe, maybe not, but they can sell product without resorting to
specmanship and flashy looks. Well, tradition hi-fi styling.

Various reading and browsing leads me to believe that even firms like Sony
struggled to convince the 'high end boys' that their 'audiophile' ranges
are/were up to the standards of overpriced 'boutique audio' from UK (and now
Chinese) *cottage industry* manufacturers and that ground-breaking,
industry-leading firms with humble origins like Lucky Goldstar can suffer
from a lingering (but rapidly diminishing) association with their earlier,
cheap and (in some cases) fairly nasty products!!

Huh? Sony has always had respected high-end digital products. LG doesn't
have high-end audio that I know of, while their tvs are everywhere.

Stephen