Picked up a Sony BDP-S1, first Bluray player sold in the U.S.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by pac.attack76

Looks nice but I would have passed on it being what it is. My ps3 will play blu ray discs. I many movies do I have on blu ray? One. I'm not a fan of newer tech. Had a few flat screens and sold all of them. I'd rather put my money in vcr equipment and similar items. Half of what I get has been free too.

I can see the value in owning a first gen machine as a collectible. A large portion of the value of the CT-100 and the Westinghouse equivalent (that some forget beat RCA to market) is that they are the 'first' to exist. If 21" all glass CRT based color sets came to market first and they just happened to make the 15GP22 as a low price color set better than half the folks that care about them would not give a damn...

I like to collect recording formats and players, and got one U-matic deck and tapes....When I discovered it was the first model, Sony's flag-ship VO-1600 it became all the more special to me...Would I grab 5 more decks of that format?...Hell no (maybe one good one for a spare)!

If I found a BD player like that for cheap, I would buy it...Just because I know it will increase in value with time. And I actually do have enough gear to play BDs but no discs yet...