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Asda May Sell Cut-Price HD Players
Supermarket chain, Asda, could soon be selling cut-price high-definition
(HD) DVD players if a rumoured deal by its parent company, Wal-Mart comes off.
Wal-Mart has reportedly inked a $100 million deal 
with a Chinese
manufacturer to supply it with 2 million high-def players, which it will sell at
the knock-down price of $199 – or £100. That’s less than a third of what the
cheapest Toshiba player costs. However, since much of this news is coming from
Asian sources, it’s not exactly clear whether or not the players will be HD DVD
or Blu-ray machines.
The players will come from Great Wall Corporation in China, with parts from Taiwan’s Fuh
Yuan and Japan’s TDK. Broadcom will supply the system-on-chip decoder. Asda has been working hard to boost sales of electronics equipment and it's highly likely that some of those players will make their way over here.
If, true, this deal could
radically change the nature of the high-def format war, not least by opening the
door for more, cheap players to arrive on the scene. If the Wal-Mart player is
HD DVD, it would certainly help that camp close the gap with Blu-ray, which
seems to be edging ahead – especially now that the PS3 is here.
Sony Blue=ray or Toshiba HD-DVD ,Just remember the Beta-video player format war years ago, something stinks again , c-mon you greedy money grabbers sort it out- NOW - I wont buy until its settled ,no chance
Billy
Posted by: william neary | April 27, 2007 11:18 AM