http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/02/kaleidescape-still-on-track-to-deliver-a-pricey-blu-ray-player-t/ Engadget HD Comments for Kaleidescape still on track to deliver a pricey Blu-ray player this year http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/02/kaleidescape-still-on-track-to-deliver-a-pricey-blu-ray-player-t/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/02/kaleidescape-still-on-track-to-deliver-a-pricey-blu-ray-player-t/Mar 2nd 2009 12:31PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/02/kaleidescape-still-on-track-to-deliver-a-pricey-blu-ray-player-t/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/02/kaleidescape-still-on-track-to-deliver-a-pricey-blu-ray-player-t/Then the company making the device spends all this money on R&D plus on manufacturing and then no one (or almost no one) buys them. All their investment goes to waste, they have layoffs and possibly close and then they want money from the government to stay alive because they made really bad decisions!?
I know if I made a bad decision, no one would "bail" me out; I think if the companies make stupid choices and can't afford to recover, they should be left to die. The whole bail out encourages bad and greedy decision making. That may sound cruel, but companies that don't need help aren't getting anything for making good decisions so why reward the incompetent?]]>Mar 2nd 2009 2:06PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/02/kaleidescape-still-on-track-to-deliver-a-pricey-blu-ray-player-t/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/02/kaleidescape-still-on-track-to-deliver-a-pricey-blu-ray-player-t/
The economy has certainly affected sales for Kaleidescape and similar high end manufacturers but the demand is still present. What manufacturers are seeing is consumers taking more time to evaluate their purchase and compare features and relative value across different products. This has opened the door for competitors like Niveus, FusionResearch and Axonix who do offer a Blu-ray player with their Media Server.

If Kaleidescape failed to offer a Blu-ray solution they would eventually be in trouble as anyone dropping $8,000+ on a media server demands the very best in quality and unfortunately for Kaleidescape, the very best is not standard definition DVDs.

Not sure what bail outs have to do with a profitable company like Kaleidescape, you kind of lost me there.]]>Mar 2nd 2009 10:35PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/02/kaleidescape-still-on-track-to-deliver-a-pricey-blu-ray-player-t/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/02/kaleidescape-still-on-track-to-deliver-a-pricey-blu-ray-player-t/
Bail outs have to do with hand outs for the stupid decision many companies have made.
The timing on this is bad; I'm not saying they shouldn't make or release such a device, but if they wait until things improve a bit, they would also be able to reduce the cost somewhat.
Sure there are rich people looking for the best of the best and most of them are still rich even today, but the priority should be pushing more people to adopt Blu-Ray to overall reduce all prices and costs instead of ensuring their version of the super tier device is out there.]]>Mar 3rd 2009 11:09AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/02/kaleidescape-still-on-track-to-deliver-a-pricey-blu-ray-player-t/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/02/kaleidescape-still-on-track-to-deliver-a-pricey-blu-ray-player-t/
What exactly is better about the picure from a Samsung BR player and a Kaleidascape BR player??? ]]>Mar 3rd 2009 1:05AM