The only blu-ray story more insane than the Sony $1900 mega-changer is the Lexicon $3500 single disc player.

Mega Changers will be around for a very long time.
Consider 400 disks x 50GB ea, that’s 20TB of storage! The cost of the media will come down to a few $$ per blank. There will be no need for lossy audio formats, imagine a 300 CD collection in WAVe on 4 DVDs, or your entire collection, plus all of the iPod videos you could imagine on a single disk in the front of your SUV on a family trip!!

What I would like to know: Is Lexicon paying Oppo fees for this apparant clone? It plays the same disc types and has an identical layout, both of the front panel and the rear panel. The only added “feature” seems to be that you can play the yak-track over the lossless audio, yay (IMO defeating the purpose of the lossless audio).
If so, Oppo presumably demands very high fees, as the Lexicon’s price is 7 times! that of the Oppo. I suppose some of the added cost is explained by having to get the player THX certified…..

Patrick Green, Lexicon is not copying oppo. If you say they are copying Oppo then look at Denon. There will be more that you can claim are copying oppo. Just think about the massive number of DVD Players that also play SACD and CD. Have all of them copied someone else so they should pay someone? Your logic is very flawed.

bad_code, the platform for this player is the Oppo BDP-83. i think that much should be obvious from the form-factor and every single button and rear connector is identical.

it’s a great platform to start with. hopefully they’ve made some updates under the hood like the analog processing for audiophiles and whatever they may have updated to get THX certified, and not just a nice brushed silver faceplate.

I love all of you guys who see that the Lexicon is using the Oppo chassis and electronics layout and automatically assume that it’s a rip off with a shiny front at loads more money…. and yet wait….. have any of you been able to do a direct comparison between the two, do you know what’s been changed inside, have you even actually seen a Lexicon working?!

If the Lexicon offers just a small picture upgrade on the Oppo, plus better audio replay (the Oppos CD replay is abysmal - and no I don’t mean for people who think that Denon make great CD players!) then owners of Lexicon gear will be more than happy to buy and the likelihood will be that they’ll be more than pleased with it.

Don’t assume that just because something seems dear to you and doesn’t offer much of an upgrade over a similar product, that the 20% increase you get for the extra money isn’t appealing to someone who can afford it.

Also, don’t moan about what bad value something is until you’ve actually seen it working against the thing it’s based on.

If you want the car analogy, look a Mercedes and then look at a Maybach. Same car, way way more expensive. Still it’s a better car and people buy it.

drewski, You seem to be basing your comment only on assumptions. So what good is that? I don’t know if you are right or wrong, but the fact is you don’t seem to know either.