Seems crazy, right? After all, the PS3 has a Blu-Ray player built right in, so why would you pay twice as much, and get only the Blu-Ray player? I mean the PS3 is an awesome console (not sure it’s $999 awesome, but still awesome)… so how on earth is a stand-alone Blu-Ray player worth $2,000?!

But that’s what Pioneer is trying to sell us: a $2,000 Blu-Ray player. The reviews look pretty good, but I just don’t see how anybody can justify $2,000 for such a device. I spent less than $4,000 on a 40″ 1080p LCD TV and now they expect me to fork out over half as much again for a Blu-Ray player?

Maybe this is just a marketing ploy between Sony/Pioneer to make the PS3 look like a more reasonable buy. Sorry, but I think I’m going to stick with my upscaling DVD player and PS2 for the time being…