Stuart Rowe , COO of play.com is claiming that sales of Blu - beam players have increased seven - fold since Toshiba announced it was cutting and race from its HD - videodisc format . The UK - based web retail merchant sold more Blu - shaft of light player on Tuesday than it has in the whole of last hebdomad , and was the first to react to the Toshiba news by thrash HD - videodisk instrumentalist price .
“ People have been wait a long time to move into the Hi - Def era and now they have the confidence that this is going to be the formatting , ” claimed Rowe , whose cheapest Blu - ray role player , the Samsung BD - P1400 / XEU , costs just under $ 400 .
But do n’t have a bun in the oven a slew of discounted HD - DVD pic just yet . “ There are no real plans for us to slash monetary value on the disks , ” say Stuart . “ A caboodle of hoi polloi have the players and collectors will keep buying them for the fourth dimension being . ” [ T3 ]
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