Universal players: Not worth it yet!

[Johnny Canuck]

I saw maybe 5 DVD audio discs today i would have bought.: Metallica (Black Album) Fleetwood Mac Rumours, the new 3 Doors Down album on SACD and Pink Floyd DSOTM on SACD. Maybe a greatest hits by Police or REM Greatest Hits on SACD. NOT WORTH IT YET!!!!!! Sorry. Until there are more titles why waste your money now on a universal player that cost $1000+ ...that's what you need to spend to get significant upgrade from a $300 Panasonic DVD player and by the time good titles are readily available on the format that is YET DECIDED AS THE ONE FOR THE FUTURE they will cost $300 themselves AND all have HDMI connectivity.

Unless of course, you have extra money to burn. If price is no object and want the top of of the line all the time at premium dollar, then go ahead...sorry, I have a mortgage and a very expensive girlfriend

The girlfriend is right..reading Audioholics makes me spend spend spend!!!!

The hockey strike has forced me to find a new hobby!! An expensive one. might be time to retire from these boards and accept my gear the way it is!!!

 

[shokhead]

Where did you get $1000? Example: Yamaha C750 DVD-A
SACD
Changer
Plays most every disc
Good audio and video
Under 300 bucks.

 

[Leprkon]

Unless of course, you have extra money to burn.
The hockey strike has forced me to find a new hobby!! An expensive one.

expensive is in the eyes of the spender... you must only watch hockey on TV, since you could buy 10 newly-released DVD's for what it costs to take a family of four to a hockey night out....

at the current rates, it might take one whole season to get that Yamaha RX-V2500, Axiom Grand Master HT set-up, and Denon 3910 DVD player...

 

[Takeereasy]

Nah, Johnny lives in BC, I think it's a $1.75 CDN a ticket to go to a Canucks game . Just Kidding, so don't get mad. At least you guys can afford to go and watch a good team play hockey. Here in Toronto unless you are willing to sit in the nosebleeds it's a minimum $200-$400 (not scalper prices)to take the lady out to a game in some decent seats. Then you get to sit next to guys in suits who spend the whole game on their cell phones and leave halfway through the third no matter how close the score is so that they can beat traffic. Not to mention that stupid netting put up to keep American fans who can't follow a black puck on white ice safe (yet another jab in jest ) Oh well, maybe a topic better off in the steam vent.

 

[Leprkon]

Not to mention that stupid netting put up to keep American fans who can't follow a black puck on white ice safe

guess you haven't been watching American sports during the, umm, down time. That netting is to keep the PLAYERS safe from us Americans...

 

[Takeereasy]

lol, thats good

This link sums up my feelings the best:

save the hocky players

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

The hockey strike has forced me to find a new hobby!! An expensive one.

You think this is expensive? You should try buying a Harley-Davidson sometime.