Ever wonder why you might pay upward of $2000 for a 160GB FireStore FS100 when you can go down to your local retailer and pick up something like the Archos 605 that can record video (albeit in standard definition) to a 160GB hard drive for less than $400? Anthony over at the IEBA blog wonders the same thing in one of his latest posts.
So let me ask you, if I made a clunky-big hard drive recorder with an LCD screen that was cutting-edge in 1978, would it be worth $2000 today? Better yet, do you think it wold cost $1600 to license and engineer the codecs the Firestore has into the Archos? Oh, wait, I’m forgetting the value of the drop-dead gorgeous full-color LCD touch screen and the ability to play back video content from within the device!!!
Some interesting thoughts here. Makes you want to sign a petition or something.
