Daily Blog – Brian Florian – April 2, 2008: BLU-RAY PRICES ON THE RISE… SORT OF.

I’ve been monitoring the price of Blu-Ray hardware since Christmas.  In January, at any one point in time, you could easily find a given player on “sale” for about 25% off, which is to say that was the “regular” price.   Since then, with but the odd less-than-compelling exception, they’ve pretty much stayed at their full price with no change… which in technology terms is sort of like saying the prices are going up because we expect them to fall as a natural part of the process.

People are quick to say that this is a consequence of killing off the competing format.  While that is a factor not to be ignored, I suspect there is more to it.

So who’s keeping Blu-Ray such an expensive prospect?  We’ve all got ideas I’m sure.