Submission + - $99 HD DVD Players & the future of DVDs Player
Timoteo47 writes: Industry analyst John DiLoreto has an interesting column at www.displaydaily.com on the future of DVD players. Today Wal-mart announced that they will be selling a Toshiba HD DVD player for $98.87 on sale until Saturday. Also, this week Variety had a story about Hollywood mogul Brett Ratner (director of the Rush Hour series of movies) and his collection of 10,000 DVDs on his Kaliedescape server.
'Ironically, the same Hollywood elite who support such stringent DVD licensing terms are able to overcome this problem today with a $50,000 server. As reported Monday in Variety, Hollywood mogul Brett Ratner calls his Kaleidescape media server "the coolest thing in the world that I own ...I have my entire movie library on it and on every TV in my house, so I can play any film anytime." He reportedly has more than 10,000 DVDs in his collection.
What about the rest of us? It shouldn't take a 5-figure device to do that.'
'Ironically, the same Hollywood elite who support such stringent DVD licensing terms are able to overcome this problem today with a $50,000 server. As reported Monday in Variety, Hollywood mogul Brett Ratner calls his Kaleidescape media server "the coolest thing in the world that I own
What about the rest of us? It shouldn't take a 5-figure device to do that.'