PriceSCAN Press Release
9/12/08
Blu-ray Player Prices Drop As Retailers Enter Q4
PriceSCAN Vice President of Financial Products Daniel Fehder commented that the Blu-ray Index has dropped 8% in the first two weeks of September compared with a 12% decline over the whole of Q3 2008.
Jeff Trester, PriceSCAN Co-CEO and Chief Economist, noted, “This precipitous decline in Blu-ray pricing, coming in the wake of a recent victory over Toshiba’s HD-DVD standard, may indicate not only effective online competition i.e. Netflix’s Roku, but also generally soft consumer demand for high end electronics. Given the current economic climate, this may not bode well for holiday sales.”
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About the PriceSCAN.com Econometric Team
Dr. Jeffrey J. Trester is Co-CEO and Chief Economist of PriceSCAN. After graduating MIT and attending Yale for graduate studies in theoretical physics, Dr. Trester received his PhD in financial economics from the Wharton School. He has also served on the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank’s Business Council. Daniel C. Fehder is Vice President of Financial Products at PriceSCAN.com. A graduate of Harvard and University of Pennsylvania, he can be reached for comment at analytics {at} pricescan.com
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