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by Gordonjcp 1372 days ago
The same week that Sony launched the PS2 they also launched a 100-disc carousel CD/DVD changer as part of their home theatre kit. There might also have been a 200-disc changer, but I know the shop I worked in stocked one of the 100-disc changers.

Just think! All your CDs and movies in one machine, that you can play on your big rear projection TV over your 5.1 surround speakers!

Just think! They had absolutely no intention of releasing a version that was actually a PS2 with wireless controllers, and indeed thought the very idea that anyone would buy such a thing was laughable.

That would have blown the market to pieces.