[Blackraven]

Originally Posted by JTK

Both should pop for retail on November 15th in Japan with an expected price of about ¥300,000 (about $2,550) for the BW200 and ¥200,000 (about $1,700) for the BR100.

Yup, cost you a damn arm and a leg.

But this is actually quite good.

I remembered that when Pioneer did a Philippine expo in 1999, they shown a DVD recorder + rewriter with HDD that costs USD$3,000.

At least it ain't that exorbitant compared to that time.