Precisely. How come Dune and Popcorn hour can sell what they sell? Meridian would make a 1k excuses instead of exploit the opportunity. The licensing would be significantly less then for the F80 and if they priced it sensibly they would move a lot of units. But maybe M wants to price everything in the stratosphere to maintain image? The Faroudja chipped units that cost a fortune are today bested by inexpensive Chinese chips like Sigma in sub $500 media players.

Take new gen Intel mediaplayer chip and roll in Sooloos for movies and all formats of music and don't sell the storage nonsense simply the player and you're there. Upcharge for M speakerlink sure. But don't charge $5k or $15K for this. Reserve that pricing for speakers that a %age of new customers buying into the media player will aspire to. One can dream......along the stream......gently....