500k may be an over exaggeration, but 100k really isn't. My boss knows a woman who was employed by Priceline and she sold her stock for over 4 million. My roommate worked where Priceline is, and he said that he saw at least 4 Porsche 911s there (which are 69k stripped). These people made quite a bit of money. If you've made 4 million through a dotcom, buying a house for 1 million or 2 million is a distinct possibility, and 100k for a home theater system in a 2 million dollar house is about right. And, it's easy to get 100k for home theater. For instance, a Proceed home theater system would cost you 5k for the amps (assume 5 channel), 5-6k for the preamp, and 5-6k for the DVD/CD player. Then, add some nice revels at 15k for fronts and 7.5k for rears (I'm not sure what the center costs), and you're up to 45k just for sound. Then add a 30k projector, screen, and scaler, and you're nearing 80k. Then, you still have to add cables and other hardware, a fancy $1000 remote to control everything, fancy (remote-controlled) drapes...

Personally, I'll never be able to afford that, but I'll also never have stock in a dotcom.

About the beta test -- I'm wondering why there were so few beta testers. I would think that 10 beta testers would be the minimum necessary, given the complexity of this type of equipment. Heck, I just tried the THX button on my Onkyo for the first time last night, and I've had this system for months. There's just too many features with most systems these days to test everything. Additionally, the more beta testers, the more weird equipment that may or may not like the Outlaw stuff. For instance, I was using my friend's Proceed amp for a while, and my Onkyo's 12V output operates differently than what the Proceed amp was designed to accept. The Onkyo kept turning the Proceed amp off and on at weird times. This type of error is very hard to find without a lot of people testing.