Forty players have been allocated to ship to clients late this week. We have a little more work to do on the new ecommerce back end, and then we'll take firm orders (probably Tuesday or Wednesday). There will be certain conditions attached to these first forty players, however:

* They are all blue, although a free colour change will be available later

* The tuner isn't ready, it will ship as soon as we get some (could be a month or two)

* These players will ship with Beta software. Subsequent Mark 2's will ship with a consumer release, and of course the initial players are fully upgradable. Some new Mark 2 functionality may be incomplete at first.

Full details will be emailed in the next day or so to those who have expressed an interest in taking up the client upgrade offer.

Rob