Blu-ray's Hardware Woes Stacking Up

An anonymous reader writes "The bad news just keeps on coming for Blu-ray. First, Sony halved its U.S./Japanese launch shipments of its Blu-ray powered PlayStation 3, blaming a shortage of blue lasers. Then, in the last two weeks, both Sony and Pioneer delayed the releases of their new Blu-ray players, refusing to cite reasons. And this week, at Blu-ray backer LG's annual dealer show, a previously announced LG Blu-ray player was nowhere to be found. LG product development director Tim Alessi had this to say: 'We will provide an announcement when the time is right.'"

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Better yet, don't announce it until you can really make it. Sony hasn't learned anything. They are not using a "it won't get to market until it is done" approach here because they are gentlemen. What is happening, is that Sony is suffering from their long-time habit of announcing products that are FAR from being complete.

I don't think you know what you're talking about. I mean, your description of what sony is doing is correct but I think your analysis of why they are doing it is way off.

You say "Sony hasn't learned anything". I say you're insane. They learned a lot. They learned that when they announced the PS2 over a year in advance with completely bullshit specs, two things happened. One, their most important competition was destroyed, their wells poisoned, and their ground sown with salt. Two, shitloads of people bought the PS2 anyway even though it was maybe 10% as powerful as they claimed it would be.

Sony knows exactly what they are doing. The sad thing is that consumers are such sheep that it will probably work again, simply because they're doing it in a slightly different space in the market.