CEDIA 2007 - Day 1: Us vs. Monster Cable, Sony's New Projectors and Toshiba on HD-DVD
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Manveer Wasson on September 5, 2007 11:45 PM EST- Posted in
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Toshiba on HD-DVD
The final part of the Toshiba press conference focused on HD DVD. As one of the major backers of HD DVD, Toshiba made sure to pay special attention to this topic. Jodi Sally, VP of Marketing for Toshiba's Digital A/V group, beamed to the stage and presented some interesting data on HD DVD's infiltration into the market. She focused on HD DVD's dominance in the PC drive market stating 62.7% of PCs shipping with HD drives are using HD DVD.
She went on to draw a parallel between DVD's growth in the past and HD DVD's current growth. DVD players saw a large surge in growth when the Chinese DVD Players entered the market back in 2000 at a price point of $250. Toshiba is predicting the same kind of growth in HD DVD players since they are just now hitting that price point.
One more interesting statistic that Jodi showed in her presentation was that twice as many of those likely to buy a next generation DVD solution chose HD DVD over Blu-ray. However as the pie chart below shows, 51% of the total pool of people were not sure which they would purchase. Both formats still have a long way to go before penetrating the majority of the market.
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monster will confuse people. they're hoping people will just jump onto the highest end equipment, rather than thinking about what they'll use it for.the article suggests using rating x for lengths 0-X, y for lengths X-Y, etc.
they should just make one cable for 1m, one for 2m, one for 3m, and so on. the consumer won't know that the 3m has, apparently, thicker wires. so monster can really skimp and give the thin wires for the standard hdmi (btw, i think monster invented that term, all i'm aware of is HDMI 1.3 spec). anyways, they'll give that the old 1500% markup, then they can markup the 2m at 1200%, the 3m at 1000%, etc.
you want to educate consumers? don't bother. take away their knowledge. give them one size fits all. it looks like monster just said the lowest end 2m cable works for the highest end application. maybe there's some proof that "it's all 0s and 1s, it either works or it doesn't" [it is true after all].
Myrandex - Thursday, September 6, 2007 - link
Unless I read it wrong, it looked like the lowest quality monster cable received more bandwidth at 2m then 1m (where it was quoted at selling for $50 for a 1m cable).911medic - Thursday, September 6, 2007 - link
The article states the Monster FS Perfectview 450 "will be shipping by the end of September at $699, which is quite pricey given the screen sizes we're talking about here." Monster products are overpriced/a waste of money, IMO, but the accompanying slide pretty clearly states a price of $349.95. Is that wholesale or something?Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, September 6, 2007 - link
Very good question :) I had $699 in my notes but it's quite possible that I wrote it down wrong, let me see if I can confirm. $349 makes much more sense.Take care,
Anand
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Those are just as overpriced a Monster, but without the showy coloring.TonyB - Thursday, September 6, 2007 - link
They need to release some INTERNAL HD-DVD ROM drives for the PC instead of focusing on Laptops.There has to be a better alternative than the crappy external Xbox 360 HD-DVD addon. I know ASUS recently announced one but its not available yet.
Im not a Blu-Ray fanatic, in fact I plan to purchase an HD-DVD ROM drive as soon as they're available (7-8+ Adult HD-DVD titles compared to 2 Adult Blu-ray titles).
The thing that pisses me off is that Blu-ray has a crap ton load of BD-ROM internal rom drives because they got all the drive manufacturers on their side.