Goldmund's Eidos 20 BD Blu-ray player costs $17k
By Darren Murph 
posted Feb 26th 2008 10:29AM
posted Feb 26th 2008 10:29AM
[Via CNET]
posted Feb 26th 2008 10:29AM
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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.
"eidos" was a word before it was a video game company.
"eidos" was a word before it was a video game company.
"eidos" was a word before it was a video game company.
But does it blend?
Do YOU blend?
Hopefully.
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.
Snake oil is always over the top. But some people keep getting impressed by it nonetheless, sigh.
Next they'll make an HD-DVD player for $20,000.
"Ooooh... Its rare and mysterious!!!"
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.
$17k???? Maybe they stuck 20 individual BluRay players in that thing?
More like 2 and a half PS3s LOL?!
SEEMS LIKE MATH ISN'T YOUR FORTÉ LOL?!
How did you get the "É" in there?
Alt + numpad.
Yeah, I'll take two.
Take two would rather wait for the release of GTA4.
I knew Blu was expensive, but this is ridiculous.
Or a Beowulf cluster of 340 HD-DVD players for the same price, but with 34,560 x 19,440 resolution...
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.
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.
This thing will never sell without some harmonic resonance limiting wooden knobs and gold plated optical connectors.
It has that classy "microwave chic" look to it.
Cool, it looks like a cassette deck. Awesome. Rox.
For 17 grand, they better fly in the actors to act out each movie for me.
what an over price rectangle. The thing is fugly ontop of it all.
I think I'd stick with a new Honda.
Further proof that Blu-Ray is doomed to lose the format war.
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.
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.
@Siliqua:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
an internet? is there more than one internet available to us?
It also came with your own skynet.
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. ;)
*some of it's bribes they allegedly paid to become a monopoly.
I must have forgot that disclaimer the first time.
The sad thing is this is still the cheapest Blu-Ray player available. :)
What the hell? No it isn't.
Shit like this just doesn't matter in the digital world. That's the thing about digital.
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.
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.
and it cannot record in Blu-Ray at that price? FUCK THAT!
I was going to get one of these, but then I saw a car I liked...
Caption:
"You're ours now, suckers!" - Sony.
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/
What, no (RED) version?
Can I get the extended warranty for another $4200?
I figure for $17k it should be able to play Doom.
Yeah, but it was such an awful movie I'd doubt you'd want it to.
@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... ;)
Hey, if you just dropped $70,000 on a 103" flat panel this thing is a bargin....