some of you guys keep getting it wrong. the companies in hd WANT prices to drop, they want a player in everyones house. they want media prices to drop so that everyone is buying movies - that is were the real $$ is.
they have already gouged the early adopters, now they have t oget prices down so it will become more mainstream. the 'war' was actually keeping prices artificially inflated due to manafacturinf being split & most peeps waiting on the sidelines for the dust to settle. the other big factor is happening to, more hd tv's are being sold.
a lote of you guys dont remeber the high cost of dvd players and media when it 1st came out - I paid $1000 for my 1st gen deck & movies were in the $30 range(paid $1200 for 1st gen directv-yeh im one of those
). believe me, the companies involved got prices down as quickly as they could- once the intial early adopters profits had been gathered in.
volume is money, both camps goal was/is to make hd media as common as dvd. but the 'war' was slowing down everything. wait & see what hardware & movie prices r like by xmas. except for a few stubborn holdouts, the glory days of low price hddvd hardware will have been forgotten.
z, that price diff is weird. here the price is pretty much at parity, with some exceptions on both sides. there MIGHT be a couple of $$ diff, but overall prices r pretty much the same.