Blu-Ray movies...where do you think the price will settle? I've seen them from$39-29.00.?

Question

I see used ones for about $19.00 and Best Buy has them new for that price.

Barnes and Nobel (very high priced) has a buy two get a thrid one free.

Best deal yet: I saw Fred Meyer have a buy one get one free deal.

Where do you think the prices will end up at by Christmas? Where is the best place to buy them? Is buying used ones good?

Answer 1

Oh....eventually they'll end up being about $10 for older ones, $15 for NEW releases.....

And $5.99 for stuff they want off their shelves.....

If Best buy has them NEW for $19.99, by Christmas it'll drop by $2 or $3.....

Hey, there isn't that much Wiggle-room if they are that price !

Personally ANYWHERE is a good place to buy them....

And used isn't bad, as long as you can return them if scratched and exchange it for the same.....

Answer 2

I think it is going to be a few years before BluRay disks drop in price for new movies.

Sony is restricting sales of BluRay to Netflix and Blockbuster to force people to buy the disks.  Rumors are they paid or waived upwards of 500 million in fees to some studios to get them to drop HD-DVD and now they have to make the money back somehow.

BluRay disks are more expensive to master. They are in fact "BD Java" programs and not the simpler "tree" menu systems that standard DVD's have.  Add in all the internet-enabled features, the compressed & un-compressed audio, the interactive features, and your simple movie starts to rival a video game in programming complexity.

There are few duplication houses that can make copies of BluRay and they are being overwhelmed.  So you do NOT see all new movies coming out on BluRay - only some.

All of these problems are going to keep licensing and manufacturing costs high which means higher cost for consumers.