Niveus Ice Vault 200 DVD-changer

While true techies are only satisfied by ripping their entire DVD collections to humongous hard drives, the majority of people just want a simple way to organize and play back their physical discs. With this in mind, high-end audio/video manufacturer Niveus has just announced a 200-disc DVD-changer for the (very rich) everyman which allows for on-screen selection of the desired movie. The Ice Vault 200 (also the name of the safe where we store the Engadget diamond collection), as it's known, hooks up to any Niveus Media Changer PC (sorry HP fans, not compatible with the new z556 desktop or any other Media Center PC) through a FireWire connection and displays its disc selection as a catalog of movie posters in the "my DVD" section of Windows Media Center Edition. Several Ice Vaults can be daisy-chained together, giving you access to over 1000 titles, and metadata is automatically updated as new discs are added. Niveus is shooting for a November release date, and although price has yet to be announced, we are speculating that it will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of a million billion dollars.

[Via Digital Media Thoughts]