Sony launches its first new 4K Blu-ray player in over five years

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Originally Posted by apollo828

Huh? $200 would've been a dream back then. I just happened to be in NYC when DVD first came to America, and was in a video store where they sold it. The prices in that link seem about right, to my recollection. Adjusted for inflation, they were above $1K. I also got my hands on the first DVD computer playback kit in '98. My recollection is that it was $400, for a drive and a passthrough video card that (IIRC) sat between your graphics card and your monitor.

It was 1999ish, when they started to hit $200 or so I want to say.

I remember an Apex player around that time frame (and price point) that had a little buzz online because it could also play MP3s!

And yes, my first DVD "player", circa 97-98, also was the Creative Labs PC kit with the MPEG2 encoder card and the PC drive. It may even still be in my basement morgue of loooong outdated PC parts...