Samsung Blu-ray player down to $569.99 (NEW) at Amazon

[dobyblue]

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-BD-P10...&s=electronics

Damn that's quite a drop. Prices have dropped from $100 and up at most retailers, but Amazon is definitely taking the cake here.
$569 for a new Samsung Blu-ray player.
There must be a 2ng gen player being announced at CES from Samsung.

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/sh...ayer_Price/410

As any MSRP discount means an even lower wholesale cost for retailers, a quick perusal of online sites saw even more competitive prices for the BD-P1000. Both BestBuy.com and CircuitCity.com are now selling the player for $799, while Amazon dropped its price a whopping $330, to a comparitively affordable list of $569.

That now makes the BD-P1000, with discount, the cheapest Blu-ray stand-alone player on the market, edged out only by Sony's 20GB PlayStation 3 game console, which includes a Blu-ray drive and currently lists for $500.

Vitally important for the next-gen format wars, Samsung's move also helps to close the price gap between Blu-ray and HD DVD -- at least with such steep online discounts -- nearing the $500 list price for Toshiba's cheapest HD DVD player option, the HD-A1.

Such aggressive pricing can only help the high-defintion formats, as one of the primary deterrents in attracting consumers to a new technology is price. So we hope to see more discounts on hardware throughout 2007. Stay tuned.

[JBlacklow]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

There must be a 2ng gen player being announced at CES from Samsung.

I have a feeling that CES2007 will be all about the 2nd gen for Blu-ray.

[Zvi]

I like my curernt sammy, but if G2 will offer faster boot and response times and complete BD-J I'm in.

[Wendell R. Breland]

Originally Posted by JBlacklow

I have a feeling that CES2007 will be all about the 2nd gen for Blu-ray.

Yes, I feel CES2007 is going to be a real Blu event .

[goodstuff]

Yep, I think we'll be seeing a few less expensive 2nd gen machines in a few days. Uh-oh.

[Zvi]

Do we have anybody from our forum going to CES to give us sneak peaks?

[Dave]

HD DVD price advantage is now disadvantage!

LOL, their last chance to win people is wasted. Sorry Toshiba! Samsung owns you now!

[Stuart Kirby]

Man! $569... sometimes living in the UK really does leave me dumbfounded. Great news though ... having bought a Panasonic BD10, I love hearing good news

First post, hi everyone!

[Blue]

Well 3 of them = 1 exactly the same in Aus AU$1599 (even with the conversion rate it comes to AU$720, still under half the price). That Region B sticker must cost alot. (Maybe it's made out of gold)

And Welcome.

[Deciazulado]

Hi Stuart!

The Samsung comes with a remote no? So mmm PS3s Samsungs XBoxes w add ons and Toshibas all orbiting the same price range. What price advantage?

[goodstuff]

Not to mention that the Samsung has analog and coaxial out connections