Originally Posted by VirusKiller
Assuming Blu-Ray succeeds, I'm sure Meridian will produce a BR spinner. Some will buy it; I'll stay with my PS3 at a tenth of the cost... One of Meridian's challenges is to convince enough customers that there are real benefits in spending 10x the money. But spinners are only one part of M's portfolio.

I wonder how Meridian would handle the seemingly endless stream of firmware updates required for blu-ray players? Would be quite a burden I would imagine to keep up??

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@Mark_H: Negative maybe. My recollection though is that Meridian has only survived in the past through buy-outs. It is different this time in that the company had a large injection of capital *before* the global economy went pear-shaped.

Time will tell.

Mark