Comments on: Blu-ray player shortage

By: Steven Kippel

Steven Kippel — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:07:34 +0000

Norm, you’re commenting on a year-old article.

By: Norm

Norm — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:23:18 +0000

I just got back from a visit to 1 big box store and 2 local TV/stereo stores. I found a grand total of 2 Blu-Ray players in the under-$700 range. Sure seems like a shortage to me.

By: Steven Kippel

Steven Kippel — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:40:07 +0000

This isn’t wrong information. Thanks for playing. Try again when you know the facts.

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:36:19 +0000

This information totally wrong! Your sound for the fever of HD-DVD, and give people wrong information. There is more than what you think of BD-players in the markets these days then ever before. If you like HD player please do us a fever and just talk about HD and how much you hope this format will win over blu-ray.

By: Steven Kippel

Steven Kippel — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:17:20 +0000

This wasn’t an announcement, and it was not a public note. Anyone in the industry, as I am, can verify this information because – as I said – the majority of A/V retailers and installers use this distributer.

Big-box stores and major retailers buy in bulk, and these smaller retailers and installers simply don’t have the buying power that Best Buy might have, so they use distributors like this to compete in the market.

Of course you can see that Costco.com is out of stock of all Blu-ray players except the Sharp, and Crutchfield is also out of stock of most of their BD players http://www.crutchfield.com/App/Product/Group/ProductMenu.aspx?g=279850&tp=171

At some point people are going to have to trust me. I get insider information of the sort I can’t divulge sources. I remember when I reported on the Samsung BDP-2400 being a canceled product and everyone said I made it up, that is until Samsung came out and said it was canceled later on.

By: MovieFreak

MovieFreak — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:51:10 +0000

After doiong a search on the internets for “Blu-ray player” Something tells me there are plenty to go around… every site I check even has the things on sale! *rolls eyes*

Who is this “one of the nationâ€™s largest A/V distributors” ? Or is this some sort of a confidential exchange. I can’t figure out the need for secrecy for this announcement.