Goldmund's Eidos 20 BD Blu-ray player costs $17k

At first glance, we didn't really believe anyone would create a Blu-ray player with a $16,900 sticker. Then we saw it was produced by Goldmund. Continuing its long heritage of offering up grossly overpriced wares for those with more money than sense, the firm is now trumpeting a Blu-ray player more pricey than most low-end automobiles -- and we're not even sure it's Profile 2.0. What we do know is that the Eidos 20 BD includes an AC-Curator power supply circuit, the outfit's own Magnetic Damper for lowering read errors and a chassis only a mother could love. To each his / her own, we guess.

[Via CNET]

[eggothewaffle @ Feb 26th 2008 10:36AM]

Eidos, eh?

Does it come with a real life Lara Croft clone and a mediocre franchise of action/platformer games? For $17,000, I wouldn't expect anything else.

[Temple @ Feb 26th 2008 12:54PM]

"eidos" was a word before it was a video game company.

[Temple @ Feb 26th 2008 12:54PM]

"eidos" was a word before it was a video game company.

[Paris @ Feb 26th 2008 2:04PM]

"eidos" was a word before it was a video game company.

[Diarrhea Popa Boner @ Feb 26th 2008 10:37AM]

But does it blend?

[E71 @ Feb 26th 2008 10:44AM]

Do YOU blend?

[rockintom @ Feb 26th 2008 10:47AM]

Hopefully.

[straylight @ Feb 26th 2008 11:40AM]

I love where this is going, though it is a bit over the top. I believe its things like this that push the industry foward, and any negative comments you guys make will only push it even further.

Begin the flames.

[andyo @ Feb 26th 2008 4:39PM]

Snake oil is always over the top. But some people keep getting impressed by it nonetheless, sigh.

[Timothy Sottek @ Feb 26th 2008 10:38AM]

Next they'll make an HD-DVD player for $20,000.

"Ooooh... Its rare and mysterious!!!"

[Marshall @ Feb 26th 2008 1:58PM]

Have you seen what Beta machines go for on eBay? I wouldn't be surprised if people did pay $10,000 for a Beta/HD-DVD unit. It's totally crazy.

[Josh @ Feb 26th 2008 10:39AM]

$17k???? Maybe they stuck 20 individual BluRay players in that thing?

[eggothewaffle @ Feb 26th 2008 10:40AM]

More like 2 and a half PS3s LOL?!

[ben @ Feb 26th 2008 11:27AM]

SEEMS LIKE MATH ISN'T YOUR FORTÉ LOL?!

[rv @ Feb 26th 2008 1:03PM]

How did you get the "É" in there?

[ben @ Feb 26th 2008 1:44PM]

Alt + numpad.

[Jeremy K. @ Feb 26th 2008 10:39AM]

Yeah, I'll take two.

[Aprime @ Feb 26th 2008 10:45AM]

Take two would rather wait for the release of GTA4.

[thehumanyawn @ Feb 26th 2008 10:58AM]

I knew Blu was expensive, but this is ridiculous.

[LondonConsultant @ Feb 26th 2008 10:43AM]

Or a Beowulf cluster of 340 HD-DVD players for the same price, but with 34,560 x 19,440 resolution...

[TrentD @ Feb 26th 2008 10:56AM]

I can't wait for somebody to open this thing up and find that it's the exact same system-on-a-chip from Broadcom that everyone else is using.

There's no way they engineered their own. This thing has someone else's guts in it.

[johnnychipface @ Feb 26th 2008 10:46AM]

By the size of it I'm guessing there's a chance that it has an amp in there and some converters along with some small empty boxes & springs for some quality asp reverb. A decent amp and converters would definitely justify the price but I'd rather have them in a separate unit.

[lupinstel @ Feb 26th 2008 10:47AM]

This thing will never sell without some harmonic resonance limiting wooden knobs and gold plated optical connectors.

[Howard @ Feb 26th 2008 10:52AM]

It has that classy "microwave chic" look to it.

[phanbouy @ Feb 26th 2008 2:25PM]

Cool, it looks like a cassette deck. Awesome. Rox.

[coffee @ Feb 26th 2008 10:53AM]

For 17 grand, they better fly in the actors to act out each movie for me.

[Nick @ Feb 26th 2008 11:01AM]

what an over price rectangle. The thing is fugly ontop of it all.

[Backlin @ Feb 26th 2008 11:12AM]

I think I'd stick with a new Honda.

[Ted @ Feb 26th 2008 11:17AM]

Further proof that Blu-Ray is doomed to lose the format war.

[dajimmers @ Feb 26th 2008 11:22AM]

I know, with Microsoft touting a $50 HD-DVD player, there is no way Sony's going to win this thing. That's a 338:1 deal.

[Siliqua @ Feb 26th 2008 1:37PM]

You do know it's over, don't you? That BD's won by a total landslide? That even Microsoft and Toshiba abandoned HD-DVD?

Read an Internet once in a while.

[phanbouy @ Feb 26th 2008 1:43PM]

@Siliqua:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

[JJV @ Apr 16th 2008 3:54PM]

an internet? is there more than one internet available to us?

[Rafael @ Feb 26th 2008 11:36AM]

It also came with your own skynet.

[rcappo @ Feb 26th 2008 12:17PM]

I know the BR group/Sony needed to recoup some of it's bribes to become a monopoly.

But I never saw this much of a price increase coming. ;)

[rcappo @ Feb 26th 2008 12:20PM]

*some of it's bribes they allegedly paid to become a monopoly.

I must have forgot that disclaimer the first time.

[Bob @ Feb 26th 2008 12:07PM]

The sad thing is this is still the cheapest Blu-Ray player available. :)

[Derek @ Feb 26th 2008 6:02PM]

What the hell? No it isn't.

[Nate @ Feb 26th 2008 12:13PM]

Shit like this just doesn't matter in the digital world. That's the thing about digital.

[Adam Zey @ Feb 26th 2008 2:13PM]

To be fair, it DOES matter at and after the DACs if any part of your output stream is analog. However, you could shove incredibly high quality and well-shielded DACs into a player and still come up a fraction of the cost of this monstrosity.

Also, no idiot paying $17 grand for a BluRay player would be using analog output. So there isn't even that.

[james @ Feb 26th 2008 3:01PM]

DACs? Who's gonna spend $17K on a player and connect it to a display using an analog connection? It's gonna be HDMI, digital all the way from the disc to the display.

[Bozo @ Feb 26th 2008 12:16PM]

and it cannot record in Blu-Ray at that price? FUCK THAT!

[Jared @ Feb 26th 2008 12:16PM]

I was going to get one of these, but then I saw a car I liked...

[Chewedtoothpick @ Feb 26th 2008 12:22PM]

Caption:

"You're ours now, suckers!" - Sony.

[jccalhoun @ Feb 26th 2008 12:23PM]

Here's their press release page which has a picture that lists some of the components in it. Looks like they are using Pioneer parts. Anyone know what a Pioneer Blu-ray player with the same parts costs?
http://www.goldmund.com/news/2008/02/

[TrackZero @ Feb 26th 2008 12:30PM]

What, no (RED) version?

Can I get the extended warranty for another $4200?

[Thomas Prescott @ Feb 26th 2008 1:12PM]

I figure for $17k it should be able to play Doom.

[Harry Wagstaff @ Feb 26th 2008 1:30PM]

Yeah, but it was such an awful movie I'd doubt you'd want it to.

[BluBla @ Feb 26th 2008 1:45PM]

@JC
As far as I know the current Pioneer BluRay lx70a costs around CHF 2000 here in Switzerland, (around USD 1700) - US prices might be a lot cheaper though... ;)

[kal326 @ Feb 26th 2008 1:45PM]

Hey, if you just dropped $70,000 on a 103" flat panel this thing is a bargin....