While nothing here solves Blu-ray's number one problem, price, there's no denying Sony's got some fun tech on display in its new
400 disc Blu-ray MegaChanger and the new BDP-S1000ES single disc Blu-ray player with WiFi. The MegaChanger presents a lovable XMB-style, Gracenote-powered onscreen menu for sorting through all the media stashed in your MegaChanger, and the S1000ES packs in 802.11n for BD-Live, along with premium analog outs and some dashing good looks for the well-heeled enthusiasts. $1,900 and $700 of respective awesomeness? Well, that's up to you decide.
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TRT @ Jul 24th 2009 9:05PM
The unit shown in this picture is the BDP-CX960 and will be available in the fall for $800.00 msrp.
KJ4GR @ Jul 24th 2009 9:23PM
I wonder it if will play my BD rips
FLskydiver @ Jul 25th 2009 5:00AM
Why? You don't burn them back to disc, do you? Not very cost effective to do that.
T-bone @ Jul 24th 2009 10:10PM
For that price, I would expect a much better UI. This UI is too basic for the $800+ you have to shell out. Can you imagine scrolling through 400 discs using this.
...pass....
DrXym @ Jul 25th 2009 7:53AM
In theory a HDD storage solution would be better but then again you'd need something like 15Tb to be able to hold 400 discs and ripping the content, even if it were a one-off process would take forever.
Brian Garrett @ Jul 25th 2009 1:16AM
This seems to be Sony trying to marry old school with new technology. Those 300 disc CD changers were pretty wicked until the iPod capacity eclipsed anything they could put into a carousel. So I wonder how long something like this is going to be relevant with technology changing as fast as it currently is.
FLskydiver @ Jul 25th 2009 4:58AM
$1900 for the changer? For about that you can build a decent HTPC with a very large array of of 1.5TB (or 2TB for a bit more cash) drives and have a much better UI and instant playback (though admittedly only after investing a good bit of time ripping). Additional benefits to the HTPC option are you can add storage as you need it -- investing in only the space you need now and buying more later when it is inevitably cheaper; and you won't be out of luck when your collection surpasses the capacity of the changer.
impetej @ Jul 25th 2009 10:59AM
I have the 300 DVD player that is a bit old. This thing looks intriguing. In regards to the HTPC, the burning time could be excessive.
ClutZ @ Jul 26th 2009 6:49PM
My first opinion of it was. . .Now in convient microwave size.
kevon27 @ Jul 27th 2009 1:09PM
Please wait for Best Buy's 200 bluray changer from Insignia for $150.00
james @ Aug 3rd 2009 9:21AM
Some peopleare still living in the "HDD media dream-world", heh?
1. Too expensive. Look at the cost of 15-20 TB's of storage- that which would be required to rip FULL-QUALITY 1080 films.
2. Umm, who wants 10-15 HDD's laying around?
3. Not the easiest process to set-up, configure. and maintain.
4. Have to provide a streaming device.
5. Have to back it up.
6. Crap FF, RW other controls.
7. No ISO's.
8. Check out the time it takes to rip a BD to a HDD. ghastly.
We're still a number of years away from bona fide HDD media centers. They're curently simply costly, time consuming and non-user friendly. Tech-heads def have an easier go of it, though. From early accounts the GUI of this unit is great (just like the ps3) and its storage capacity is unmatched. There's a CX version of the 400 disc avail soon for $799. Surely, soon to be discounted for