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Sub-$300 Hi-Def players within a year?

By Justin Mann

On April 23, 2007, 5:23 PM

Truly affordable HD players are inching closer, for sure, and every month we hear another story about the price being dropped just a tad more. Now it seems that one of the U.S. biggest chains will be stocking sub-$300 players, though it still is not clear as to which format, if not both, these players will support. Nor is it clear on when the units will be released:

The release date of the player is just as widely speculated upon as the price. However, reports cite the manufacturer’s plans of fulfilling the entire 2 million unit order by the end of 2008 point to a release likely within a year’s time.
The players are supposedly being ordered en-masse from China. It seems that Wal-Mart expects interest in the new formats to pick up dramatically very soon. It wasn't that long ago that Toshiba brought an HD DVD unit for under $400 to the market, so clearly manufacturing costs are coming down enough to make this possible.

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