New product launch?

[Confused]

You bet !

So what about D-Premier to D1000 Plus??   Another interesting one!

It probably doesn't mean much, but when i registered for the 'first 200' to upgrade, in the drop down menu where you select your current Devialet it didn't list the D-Premier. Maybe this means it is not eligible for the upgrade.

As previously mentioned, i cannot see how the D-Prem will be eligible to go straight to an Expert Pro as that would surely harm/kill the 250/800 values and not be fair on those who paid for the upgrade from D-Prem to 250/800.

An interesting point re 'current' models dropping to D-Premier second hand values if the D-Premier can do an upgrade jump to D1000 Plus.  However, it is all speculation though at the moment.  Remember the D-Premier has different connectivity to the D250, there may be other subtle differences also.  At the moment it is not clear if the D-Premier is upgradable at all now, or if it is, at what price.  It could be that a D250 to D1000 Plus is say 3500 euros, the D-Premier to D1000 could be 4500 euros, as an example.  (To be clear, I do not have any details, I am speculating here).  In fact this does lead to some interesting prospects, the D-Premier has HDMI input.  So could you have a hybrid D-Premier / D1000 with all the upgrades but retaining HDMI, or would the D-Premier need an input 'upgrade', so all D1000's have lovely USB and are consistent.  In prediction mode, I am guessing a D-Premier will be upgradable but at higher cost.  Devialet have had enough issues with the configurator as it is without ushering strange hybrid specification units into existence.

As to the values of current models, I am sure these must have takes a hit already with the knowledge that a new version is on it's way.  This is only to be expected.  How big is this hit?  Impossible to say until the price of the upgrades and the new models are announced.  If the new D1000 is 5000 euros, for example, the hit would be massive.  (I'm guessing it will be in the 20k region by the way)

I have actually been wondering if I could pick up a bargain pair of D-Premiers, and upgrade these, leaving my lovely and still under guarantee D800 unmolested.  I'm guessing that once all this settles down, the numbers are known, second hand values stabilise, then this plan will prove to be a bit bonkers!  But we shall see!