{"id":1657,"date":"2007-06-04T16:02:42","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T23:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1657"},"modified":"2012-11-23T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T00:11:41","slug":"sony-cuts-blu-ray-player-msrp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/sony-cuts-blu-ray-player-msrp\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Cuts Blu-ray Player MSRP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1660\" title=\"Sony-Blu-ray-Player-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Sony-Blu-ray-Player-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"239\" \/>JUNE 4,\u00a02007 \u2022 Sony cut $100 off the price of its BDP-S300 Blu-ray player to $499. Growing demand for HD technology and falling production costs were cited as the reason for the price reduction. Toshiba&#8217;s competing HD-DVD player retails for less than $300. Most Blu-ray discs are played on PlayStation 3s that retails for $599.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: The PS3 packs enough technology to make the console an excellent value for those consumers on the cutting edge. Yet marketing a dedicated Blu-ray player for $100 less than the PlayStation 3 will cause home theater consumers who don&#8217;t consider themselves gamers to pause. Sales of the PS3 may take a near-term dip as a result.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 4,\u00a02007 \u2022 Sony cut $100 off the price of its BDP-S300 Blu-ray player to $499. Growing demand for HD technology and falling production costs were cited as the reason for the price reduction. Toshiba&#8217;s competing HD-DVD player retails for less than $300. Most Blu-ray discs are played on PlayStation 3s that retails for $599. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}