Ricavision Raises VAVE100 Prices; Now $350
Ricavision has single handedly made me lose the last bit of
faith I had in SideShow. Last
month I posted about their VAVE100 finally starting to take shape with
pre-orders online for $274 ($24 off, regular price was $299). That isn't a bad price considered what good Harmony remotes go for, but today I noticed that the price
is now $350!
The key point of SideShow devices was supposed to be that they were going
to be low priced devices and that Gadgets would continue to add value to the
devices. Ricavision started with the
RICA100 being said to ship at $199, in May it was bumped up to $299 with an
August 2007 release date. Now basically in 2008 we
still don’t have shipping remotes and the price has ballooned to $350, nearly double the initial price.
This is really sad as some
really good gadgets appear to be taking shape, but $350 for a remote that
seemingly will never ship doesn’t interest me anymore.
As a side note, Ricavision is also selling
the standalone
Windows SideShow Module for $120. I’m
not really sure how it is powered or what is included, but any enterprising hacker
want to pick one up and build an in-wall unit?
