It's Pay Now or Pay Later With Consumer Electronics

[I DO BLU]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,328208,00.html


This is HD DUD fan boys talking point thrown out the window.

While low prices have enabled us to fill our homes with more stuff, we pay in the loss of things like customer service, reliability, durability and flexibility. The cheap electronics that we buy on impulse break constantly, forcing us to buy more cheap electronics.

In the long term, we'll probably have spent just as much as if we'd bought high-quality stuff in the first place, except we'll have paid "later," not "now."

And the relentless cost-cutting brought on by a culture where low prices are the ultimate goal has led to the complete demise of tech support, the most labor-intensive part of the tech process and one that's invisible in advertisements and on shelves.

[JTK]

Originally Posted by I DO BLU

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,328208,00.html


This is HD DUD fan boys talking point thrown out the window.

While low prices have enabled us to fill our homes with more stuff, we pay in the loss of things like customer service, reliability, durability and flexibility. The cheap electronics that we buy on impulse break constantly, forcing us to buy more cheap electronics.

In the long term, we'll probably have spent just as much as if we'd bought high-quality stuff in the first place, except we'll have paid "later," not "now."

And the relentless cost-cutting brought on by a culture where low prices are the ultimate goal has led to the complete demise of tech support, the most labor-intensive part of the tech process and one that's invisible in advertisements and on shelves.

So true! Left hand or right hand, folks. You get what you pay for.

[I DO BLU]

And that is Hd duds model right there cheap cheap cheap.

[reiella]

Lower prices have to come from somewhere.

Businesses typically aren't in the practice of arbitrarily spending more for components.

[atomik kinder]

Originally Posted by I DO BLU

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,328208,00.html


This is HD DUD fan boys talking point thrown out the window.

While low prices have enabled us to fill our homes with more stuff, we pay in the loss of things like customer service, reliability, durability and flexibility. The cheap electronics that we buy on impulse break constantly, forcing us to buy more cheap electronics.

In the long term, we'll probably have spent just as much as if we'd bought high-quality stuff in the first place, except we'll have paid "later," not "now."

And the relentless cost-cutting brought on by a culture where low prices are the ultimate goal has led to the complete demise of tech support, the most labor-intensive part of the tech process and one that's invisible in advertisements and on shelves.

I never buy the cheap stuff. I know a lot of people who do though. They have the mentality of Oh well, I'll just buy another one when this one breaks down. My first DVD player cost $600 in 1997 and it is still in great working condition. Of couse then I bought an All region player too and still have that one too. So all this time I have only ever bought 2 DVD players and don't plan on having to buy another one. I have my BD player and don't plan on having to buy another for a while.

[tron3]

There is a market for cheap. Always will be - period.

While I paid under 500 bucks for my SOny BDP-S300, I know I didn't pay 1500 bucks because I waited a year and bought 2nd gen.

[york weir]

Does this mean as Blu-ray players get less expensive they will break down all the time?

[RUR]

Originally Posted by york weir

Does this mean as Blu-ray players get less expensive they will break down all the time?

There's a huge difference in resultant reliability between cost reductions associated with natural product maturity learning curves and those associated with the deliberate selection of cheaper, less reliable components and/or more cheaply executed manufacturing processes.

Blu-ray is pretty clearly following the former approach. HD DVD is not, and we can only speculate as to what shortcuts they may or may not be taking in order to achieve some level of profitability (or to minimize losses), as they use price, price, price in order to compensate for other disadvantages.

[york weir]

I wonder if there are any statistics on repair rates for the Tosh players and if they are in-line with the industry.