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Thu, Sep 3, 2009

Got a massive Blu-Ray collection? Sony’s got you covered

BDPCX7000ESWe’re in a recession, but that doesn’t mean someone out there doesn’t have money to burn, a desire to own every movie in the latest and greatest format and wants to have as many ‘on-demand’ as possible (without a Jeeves sitting at your BD player putting the discs in for you of course). So fear not dear readers, if you’re in the market for such a device, Sony has you covered. The Sony BDP-CX7000ES is a 400 disc Blu-Ray changer (yes that’s four hundred) that’ll play almost anything apart from SACD and supports Gracenote to tell you what all the discs are in the behemoth.

400 discs in one machine, does that make it 400 times better than your puny single disc player? Well in a word, no. But luckily for Sony, and for all you ‘money-to-burn’ buyers, Electronic House have reviewed the CX7000ES and found the performance of the player to be in line with Sony’s other ES players (read very good). With a 40 second start up to play time from cold (for a disc already in the changer) and the capability to store all your BDs (probably) without fear of mishandling all in one place, allowing Jeeves to get on with serving you drinks, the CX7000ES is an excellent entry into the BD multi-changer product category. Head on over to Electronic House for a full review of the BDP-CX7000ES, which can be yours for the bargain price of $1899 *cough*.

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4 Responses to “Got a massive Blu-Ray collection? Sony’s got you covered”

  1. iSevenx says:

    Sony is doing it all wrong. The future isn’t Blu-Ray. The future is non-physical media. Its just like them to try to push their own format when people already see the future.

    Example:

    SONY – Tape > CD > MiniDisc > MP3
    FUTURE – Tape > CD > MP3

    • Sam says:

      Meh I’m not sure. At the moment I don’t think there’s enough bandwidth to really deliver the same experience Blu-Ray can over a download or streaming. A download would be massive, and streaming, well it’s just not there yet. Whether that really matters to people, I’m not sure and it’s another argument. It always boils down to ‘enough’, which streaming in it’s current form isn’t good enough for me. Now if we all lived in South Korea, no problem, but here 50Mbits is the highest consumer speed broadband and you pay a pretty hefty premium for it.

  2. xpress907 says:

    40 seconds? But I want it now… :(

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