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MY OBSERVATIONS

A small firm like M with a history of market leading R&D should be nibble enough to keep up and overtake the lumbering giants.

Despite that I don't see much evidence of this happening - I suspect they will milk the R&D they have invested in the G players for too long without focussing enough on the future threat of Slimdevices etc.

I agree that format wars are over as people migrate to "bit perfect" HD based players.

Meridian's real edge will remain with not the source components but its skill with amplification and speakers along with D to A conversion.

My neighbour uses one of their high end stereo power amps and it is truely awsome - Sony, Microsoft or anyone else will find it difficult to challenge them and probably don't want to.

I use DSP speakers - these will survive all the changes of source components (CD, DVD, HD, Web etc). The digital source will prevail and M's unique skill with the DSP speaker will remain an edge.

Cheers and merry Xmas and New Year

Andrew