Quote Originally Posted by Sir Terrence the Terrible
The Chinese do not like to pay for liscensing of technology, so with DVD they generally didn't, and it gave them an advantage that forced the big guys out of that market(or at least from making a profit). At the last BDA meeting I attended, they were going to allow chinese manufacturers to make the players, but they were not about to allow them to liscense the technology because they know it will blow a hole in the floor if they do.
So what you re saying is that we will not see same scenario of price nose dive that happened with DVD players. And it beg the question as what criteria is dictating price of blu players....market, demand or profit?