Sony President Talks Up Blu-ray

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Some interesting predictions and statements from Stan Glasgow:

Glasgow Touts Sony’s Share Gains, Blu-ray, Green Efforts

Blu-ray prices should hit $299 by the end of the year and probably $200 by 2009. While Glasgow won’t go into Sony’s Blu-ray market share he did estimate that there will be 5 million standalone players sold this year worldwide with 75 percent to 80 percent sold in the United States. And as for HD broadband downloads hurting Blu-ray, he added that the infrastructure isn’t yet available to make a major impact anytime soon in the United States, and “you have the issue of a movie being an overnight rental that you can’t move and don’t own. [Broadband] will happen, but it won’t derail a packaged format for a decade.”

Gary