They want to sell more Blue Ray, lower the prices otherwise it will stagnate like it has. I have no desire for Blue Ray even though I have one in my PS3. Rented one movie once at a higher price and was not that impressed over a good DVD. The PS3 does upscale all DVDs to 1080P and that may have had something to do with it.
I don't buy movies either, why. After I watch a movie a couple times if it's real good, I don't want to see it again for a very long time and by then it will show up on TV.

i could build a decent gaming rig for far less than that - with casemods!

do they just make these prices up off the top of their heads or something?!

theyll only sell these things to people with 'mug' tattoo'd across their foreheads

"Last week we pointed that sales of Blu-ray have been slower than a turtle nursing a hangover and there has been a call for OEMS to package the gear in more interesting ways."

I saw no reference to sales numbers anywhere in the linked article.

£650 without stupidly overpriced BR burner !! and look at what you actually get. It may look awefully cute but it should cost £300 WITH a BRrom

According to http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLB47 the processor itself has a TDP of 35W. How do they make the claim that the entire system draws 19W?

Yep, you and the two others have got really great machines.

I'm going to let Intel's IGP speak for it self.

And FYI I got a 720 BE, unlocked the 4th core and it is now on a 24/7 OC of 3.9ghz(200X19.5) ON AIR!! So that is a quad core I got for $120 that will dominate any core 2 in that price range.

no, instead buy an overpriced intel with slow boot times and unresponsive windows actions!

youll cry all the way to the pawnbrokers

Don't buy a rubbish that powered with mediocre AMD processor!

is blu-ray still going?