At the moment all we have to choose from are the extremes: A carousel changer, or a hard disk server. We demo'd the MAS DVD server at our office and were impressed by its instant access & searching capabilities, but it's still way too expensive - 400 DVD storage for $36k. But give it a few years, and this will be the only way to go, as it is now for CDs. With so many products to choose from and hard disks with 300GB capacity, there's just no reason to ever play music from the original CD anymore, for the same reason that no one runs software from a floppy or CDROM anymore.

In the meantime, the Sony DVD changers are by far the most user-friendly.

- Doug