John, your thoughts have merit to them but there is no way for us to know that, its pure speculation though I find myself nodding to your post. I think in terms of naming, you have a great point but I think they must feel there is strong brand equity in the name "861" and they will leave it as such.

If we look at the price a different way: 6.5k GBP is 59.09% of 11k GBP and if we do the same with the US price- did they say it was 25K? Then we would get a price of $14,772.73.

Joel, I can't argue with that at all. I think you do get discrete in now, but its 6 channels instead of 8. How much of a difference is that? I don't know. I think you do have to be willing to consider that this is just the march of progress. I am sure M figured out there would be some customers who will be turned off by this. Its a shame if you are one of them in my opinion.


Last edited by JerryL; 2010-01-21 23:03.
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Jerry
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