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Originally Posted by BasicBlak 
Didn't mean to convey that it was supposed to outright replace the 4000--I was thinking more along the lines that it perhaps was intended to replace the AX200 and that perhaps one of the reasons the street price was lowered recently was to one day make way for a "new" 4000 (e.g., a new mid-priced unit) that might be in the works, filling in what would otherwise be a glaring gap and missing out on significant market share.
And the comparison with the 8350 only adds to my point in that, yes, you can get one of those today for roughly the same price. In other words, I was merely concurring with Javatime in that, unless they are planning a replacement for the 4000, on the surface it seems rather short-sighted to have discontinued it.
Didn't mean to convey that it was supposed to outright replace the 4000--I was thinking more along the lines that it perhaps was intended to replace the AX200 and that perhaps one of the reasons the street price was lowered recently was to one day make way for a "new" 4000 (e.g., a new mid-priced unit) that might be in the works, filling in what would otherwise be a glaring gap and missing out on significant market share.
And the comparison with the 8350 only adds to my point in that, yes, you can get one of those today for roughly the same price. In other words, I was merely concurring with Javatime in that, unless they are planning a replacement for the 4000, on the surface it seems rather short-sighted to have discontinued it.
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I've been thinking that perhaps the reason the AR100 has come down so drastically in price so soon after its launch is that they may be phasing it out sooner rather than later to make way for a slightly lower priced AE4000 equivalent. Stranger things have certainly happened.
The Panasonic PT-AX200U shipped for 3 1/2 years so I assume the AR100U will do as well.
