I don't think that we need to spend a lot of time debating the scaling algorythms, the price points are too different and that is one dead and badly beaten horse. The real question at the price point will be about the CMS functionality and what that will look like in the relatively near future. I want to know where DVDO is going with this. Given the right CMS functionality I am a buyer. I have an Edge currently and find it to be quite a useful device. The DUO with a fully functioning CMS at the street prices it sells would grab a big share of the market. SD sources are on their way to Dodo bird land. I was in my local Wally World and saw BD movie twin packs for $14.99. Sure these were back catalog titles but still. Broadcast will all be HD in short order, so in the long term scaling is just not that big a draw as displays get better and better native processing. VPs with full CMS and hooks to autocalibration software at consumer friendly pricing is clearly a nitch to exploit. My guess is that DVDO has a better idea of what size the market really is if the price point and feature set allows them access to more than just the super high end botique market. The Radience XE seems like an awesome piece of gear, on the other hand it reminds me of the Compaq strategy of the late 80s. Compaq in those days kept making the product more high end and expensive and shrinking the market until you they had no market left. I remember chatting with the founder of Compaq, Rod Canion, after they fired him for sticking with the strategy right into disaster land. Sure he left with $400 million, but the strategy was so misguided. I think DVDO gets the idea of creative destruction. They understand, they have to cannibalize a $3k a piece VP segment with $1200 unit, or there is no future at all. That is why the DUO is now and upgrade path for the V50/V50Pro.
