Blu-ray - What a major disappointment

[JimPullan]

Yesterday, Blu-Ray is a no show at LG's event, Pioneer Elite is having coroprate financial problems, Sony keeps postponing its introduction, movie releases are contunuously delayed, these first players are, at best, marginal, and so on.

Knowing months ago, we were back into a scenereo like VHS vs BETA war, and I was optomistic that the major player in the Blu-Ray Group, SONY would not allow history to repeat itself, especially seeing Sony buy MGM for 3.3 Billion dollars, to enhance their offerings of Blu-Ray DVD's along with their existing libraries. As we moved through the summer months, we here on the Forum were also optomistic, that the Blu-Ray consortium would win the day, have superior products, their players and their movies. As we entered the fall we started seeing problems and issues surface over and over again, while concurrently the HD-DVD group is establishing and gaining a very nice foothold with excellent movie introductions, a player with glitches resolved already, players in abundance from every mass merchandiser nationwide, now they bundle three HD-DVD's with every player sold, will be introducing their 1080p player, the X2A before Christmas, a second generation player, with zero issues and including HDMi-1.3 to boot !!!

Now the excitement has subsided here on the Forum. Sony seems to be placing all it chips on the PS3, not the BDP-S1. Dragging their feet with an introduction date for the BDP-S1 'sometime' in December shows me the utter failure of the Blu-Ray Group to achieve an objective. They have activity, without accomplishment. Failing to capitalize on the holiday shopping season will certainly place Pioneer in risk of survival, and Sony's credibility forever ruined. Even if Toshiba lost the tabletop player war, they will still come out a winner, making HD-DVD drives for computers, being in bed with Microsoft.

It appears that the HD-DVD participants are laughing their way to the bank, other forums certainly are laughing at us, saying I told you so.

Have I missed anything yet ? This Holiday . . . Bah Humbug to the grinch - SONY and PIONEER ELITE . Where's my Toshiba X2A ?


Jim Pullan
Audio Excellence
Ocala, FL