Originally Posted by Joelc
My point -- okay my complaint -- is that as a V4 user I feel that they have done a disservice in that there is no way to add one card so that I can get discrete channels from my 621 into my 861 because were it known to me that the cost of getting 8 discrete channels into my 861 would be i) the cost of the 621 + ii) the cost of an entire upgrade from a v4 to v6 then I woudl have gone a different route...at the very least they should have provided V4 owners with the option of simply adding this one card because now the cost of getting 7 channels into an 861 is USD 13,5000 (assuming the USD 10,500 is correct).

I quite agree. It is a funny world where a $20K investment (OK, investment is now clearly the wrong word) less than 4 years ago no longer gets one state-of-the-art performance, or even a cost-acceptable upgrade path. And we wonder why the hiend is in trouble!

My Kit: 861v8+ID41, 800v4, UHD722, MD600, MS600, MS200, Oppo BDP-203, Genesis 201, Genesis 350 SE, Genesis S4-8 Sub, BG 520i, VTL MB450 II, Krell Showcase 7, Genesis 928 Subs, Danley DTS10 sub, SVS Ultra 16 subs.