JVC Announces Popularly-Priced Blu-ray Player

**Shane** Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:20 am

JVC today announced the availability of a new entry-level Blu-ray player. The new JVC XV-BP11 is a truly versatile high definition player, offering playback of high definition Blu-ray discs, plus playback of the AVCHD format, the high definition format widely used for HD camcorders, including the JVC HD Everio line.

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**akirby** Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:26 am

Wasn't $199 the normal price of the HD-DVD players (not counting the heavily subsidized $99 Toshibas)?

There are numerous $200 BD players on the market. Prices have dropped 50% in 18 months, just as some of us predicted it would after the death of HD-DVD.