The thing in the photo above isn't the stunt double for the Monolith in 2001: A Space Oddessy. It's Sony's new entertainment hub, the HES-V1000 .
Intended to be the centerpiece of the connected home, it features audio distribution, a 500-gig hard drive, and a 200-disc Blu-ray carousel changer.
What!?
Not to be negative, but I still have flashbacks to the hideous service issues that haunted Sony's 200 and 400-disc CD jukeboxes back in the 1990's, not to mention the later 200 disc DVD players.
So here we are in 2008, and Sony's built a carousel into a putative home media center. There's a technical term for this in our business. It's called "Are you fucking kidding me?"
If any of you is considering this beast, please also consider the extended warranty. That's all I'm saying.
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If any of you is considering this beast, please also consider the extended warranty. That's all I'm saying.
1 comment:
Lee,
This bad boy was announced in August of last year. It's hardly new. It even qualified for the 5 free BD movies over the holidays (I'm sure that sealed the deal on this $4000 filing cabinet!)
Although, yes, it's entirely unnecessary.
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