Appears that Wal Mart has ordered a couple million HD players, whether HD-DVD or Blu-Ray is yet to be correctly translated from Chinese. Price appears to be $299!
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/the-wal-mart-299-hd-dvd-player-on-the-way/
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Wesociety wrote:If TDK is involved, this is most likely a Blu-ray player and NOT HD DVD!
Ian wrote:Yeah, I saw that too. $299 player by the end of 2008? They'll probably be less than $100 by then. Is it possible that this reporter made the entire story up?
The biggest news to hit the format war in some time hit last week with word that Wal-Mart and China's Great Wall corporation struck a deal to bring inexpensive HD DVD players to market. While this is would be great news for all HD fans, we were left a bit worrisome by the translation dispute between the two camps. Just to make sure we had our facts straight, we updated the post and contacted HD DVD to get the full story. While the HD DVD camp reminded us that they have inexpensive players from China on the way, they weren't able to confirm any "specific reports relating to Wal-Mart". It seems to us that if this were indeed true, that the HD DVD camp would be the first to trumpet its significance to their success in the format war. As much as we all want inexpensive next generation HD disc players, we will just have to wait for something more official before we hold off on our purchases waiting for Wal-Mart
-April 24th aricle on rumored 2 million HD DVD order that took place:and sources we queried who are familiar with HD DVD licensing and Chinese OEMs were flummoxed by the reports. Neither Fuh Yuan nor Great Wall appear on any rosters of DVD and HD DVD licensees. Our search of major English-language newspapers and news services in Taiwan, China and Hong Kong didn't turn up any reports on Fuh Yuan or Great Wall or the purported deal with Wal-Mart. From translations of the Fuh Yuan announcement we've seen, it was part of a ramp-up for an IPO the company will launch in July.
Wesociety wrote:WTF, so it is possible that Fuh Yuan fabricated the announcement to try and sell more of their IPO?
We are sorry to correct the statement that we have two million HD-DVD players order from Wal-Mart and manufactured by China Great Wall Group. The actuality is that we had not received yet. We are asked to provide the schedule to Wal-Mart and cost to determine the quantity even more than two million, if the cost is good enough and timing is correct. So the capacity is under consideration. Any qualified manufactured base group will be welcome.
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