Blu-ray! A format destined for hobbyists and physical-media fetishists, one that will never enjoy widespread adoption. And this idiotic $US135,000 BD player certainly won’t change that.
The Goldmund Eidos Reference Blue Blu-ray Player has all of the touchstones of audiophile snake oil. Gold plating? Check! Heavy dampening? Check! Magnets? Check! But hey, at least if you’re willing to drop that much you can be sure that your player is better than anyone else’s, complete with every feature imaginable.
Actually, you can’t be, because this thing doesn’t support internet access or BD-Live. Yes, this is a $US135,000 Profile 1.1 player. Nice work, audiophiles. The pathetic thing is that Goldmund will sell the entire 50 unit run of these things to rich idiots who don’t do their research. [Ultimate AV Mag via Oh Gizmo! via Dvice]
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September 12, 2009 at 4:01 PM
“Blu-ray! A format destined for hobbyists and physical-media fetishists, one that will never enjoy widespread adoption.”
Congratulations. You’ve just secured you’re place in the sure-to-come “stupid comments about new and upcoming technology” compilation. Look for it in the coming years.
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September 13, 2009 at 6:04 AM
GOLD plating… heavy DAMPENING… ooh, ooh… MAGNETS!! It will be like dangling a carrots in front a rich donkey!!
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September 14, 2009 at 9:56 AM
way to begin with bashing bluray for no apparent reason…
still, this makes the greatest weakness of bluray painfully clear:
they should have finalized the spec before launch, like hd-dvd did. or if they weren’t going to do that they should have atleast had the fore site to make internet access and firmware updates part of the spec from the beginning!
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