I just had my first intimate encounter with an Oppo BD95.
Now I know why I've lost so many customers to this before now ...
I was aghast at the fit and standard of the device ...
It was like suddenly holding a Barrett .50 in my hands after years of air rifles ...

Gerry Harvey was on the ABC this morning ...
He essentialy threw down a gauntlet to the online retailers of ... show me the money or %ages? ... his heart is in his business and it's values.
Mr Harvey's contention is that the online retailing phenomana being touted in 2012 is analogous to the .com bubble of 2002 ... hopelessly massive investments being made in .com companies for apocalyptic losses.

Wikipedia Digital Millenium Copyright Act

As the consumer market moves into this very digital age, few products stand out as high quality and reliable as the Kaleidescape server. It is a premium product, no doubt, but for the avid collector of DVD & Blu-Ray discs it offered the best option for storing your movie collection in an accessible manner without breaking any laws due to the method of storage (bit for bit, encrypted, licensed etc.)

I confess to being the type of person who waits in supermarket qeues and avidly reads the celeb gossip magazines but have never actually bought one. So I couldn't miss the opportunity to share this small clip from Electronic House Magazine showing the theatres of some of the USA gliterrati:

Robert Archer of CE Pro magazine (one of the most informative AV install publications) has been commenting on the iTunes move towards high res playback solutions and he appears to be unconvinced that they are real.