Would You Pay $4,300 For a DVD Player?
Thursday June 26, 2008
Kaleidescape hopes that some of you will. It is touting that its new DVD player/media server combination unit can not only upscale DVDs, but that the quality of the upscaling will rival the true-HD quality of Blu-ray disc. The problem is that the average price of a Blu-ray Disc player is about $500. Even the most expensive Blu-ray Disc players are about $2,000 (less than half the price of the Kaleidescape), and although they don't include a media server function, they will do a credible job at standard DVD upscaling, and, of course, output genuienly true 1080p high definition video from Blu-ray discs. For more details, check out the report from TV Predictions, a hand's on review by Sound and Vision Magazine, and the Official Kaleidescape 1080p Player Product Sheet.
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Comments
The previous DVD player cost $3999 so this is not much of a step up in price for the added video processing they are doing. Most of the price of the DVD player IS the media center extender part of it. They charge $8k for each 1TB media server and minimum $3k for each streamer you want in the house. $4k gets you a built-in dvd/cd player in the streamer, and now $4300 gets you the new snazzy processing. This is for people that want all their movies at their fingertips, have it organized in an intuitive way, and be able to stop a movie in the kitchen and start it back in the same spot in the bedroom. It’s much more than a DVD player in that aspect and if you balk at the price then you’re not the customer they want:)