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Originally Posted by Tim Polster
I agree, but maybe in a year or two!
First to market will be the highest price.
I don't know the codec licensing fees & R&D costs, but $6,000 seems expensive when laptops along with a screen cost $700.
Must be volume of sales.
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I agree that a company wants to recoup as much money put into R&D and fees for licensing codecs ASAP but heaven forbid! There has to be some realism in the plan. A unit that does just one thing and that is to record 4.2.2 via HD/SDI into removable 2.5 hard drives is a wonderful concept but at that price point we are talking about a fully tricked out laptop computer that does much more! Volume on sales of a specialized item has it's obvious limits but we are talking about a stable market that is for all intents and purposes growing! The Elite HD is beautiful and I for one would love to have one but I just can't validate the price point!