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Love and mary ending Both formats love and mary ending backwards compatible with DVDs and CDs. Hes talking about the ability, or in this case, the IN-Ability for first gen. BRD players to play the most recent BRD discs. Since they have no internet access, and no hard drives, the firmware on them cant be updated unlike HDDVD that all had internet access so the older BRD players cant play them. The region coding available to Blu-ray is subject to the movie studios discretion. For instance, New Line chose to only release new releases on region-coded Blu-rays so as not to interfere with the theatrical runs of the movie in foreign countries. That maybe, but a good chunk, if not all, of HDDVDs were region free. So he still has a valid point. Ive got an HD DVD quite happy with needed a new DVD player and i have one that upconverts all my standard least I didnt pay 800 for it. I waited from the day HD-DVD was announced until just before Xmas this year to decide between them. When I noticed that Best Buys Blue-Ray section suddenly looked larger than HD-DVD, I took the plunge to Blue-Ray. Still felt it was a risk, but I guess it paid off to pay attention. Blue-Ray is fabulous, but I have a DVD collection of over 1000 movies already was upconverting them on a regular I have no plans to suddenly start to buy tons of discs. Only things that are special to me or have lots of extras that the regular DVD doesnt have are worth buying again. Same with new movies since BRD are more expensive than regular DVDs special ones. I blame Microsoft for losing, even though thats very unusual for them. They did not push it enough, didnt push the differences and didnt take advantage of most of them. Microsoft blew it this time and I guess Sony learned from Beta. Got a question for the general much better can the picture GET? I was skeptical that DVD would be better than Laser Disc picture quality-wise. I was skeptical that BRD could be that much better than regular both times. But I honestly cant see how it can get any better. If anyone thinks that Blu-Ray players will drastically drop in price in the near future, take a look at the PS Sony holds the distributors prices like a noose around a condemned mans neck, never loosening it and keeping everything tight to their discretion. This decision could not have been made by the consumer because if it were, HD DVD would have clearly been the winner due to the prices of the equipment needed to play back the titles. No regional codes simply meant that if I wanted a movie before it was released over here, I could order one from over seas if it were available. Also, some of the movies that were released only in Blu Ray over here, were available over seas in HD DVD format. Sony simply bought out the competition with the consumers being the real losers. Hail to the superior profiteers! I have the Xbox 360 add-on and planned on getting a PS3 sometime in the future if Sony stopped being so darn greedy about the price and features, however this news still saddens me. HD-DVD would have been the best format in terms of price and features, but now Sony holds the keys to high definition. Judging by Sonys reputation for greed, the HD market will only be left to the die-hard HD buffs out there with the paychecks to afford it. Sony will milk all the money off what I will call the HD war over rush. Sure the war is over, but the the terrorists won! I may want their PS3, but not because I support Sony and Blu-ray, but because I support Konami and Square Enix, but thats a different forum. I tip my hat to HD-DVD and smile in anticipation for price drops for the movies! Having been through the conversion from LaserDisc to DVD and all hype and name calling that ensued, its safe to say that it will only be a matter of time and the economies of scale before Blu-Ray is THE defacto standard even for those of you who cant see the difference between a 480p DVD upconverted to 1080i or 720p. Right now the only discs that can truly showcase what this technology is capable of have been recorded specifically for 1080p viewing vs. the rerelease transfers done digitally by interpolation and rescan and they are few and far between. Back in 99 when the first rumours came out about the new Blue Laser discs and Toshiba and NEC tried to trump Sony by creating HD DVD, the information we fed to every consumer that came through the door of our High End Home Theater shop that specialized in Toshiba sales was that Blu-Ray would be THE format since HD DVD never was designed for the transfer rates and capacity necessary for full 1080p even with MPEG4 compression. Fast forward to 2007 with the slow, arcane, not always compatible HDMI connection, Blu-Ray players that cost you had to have patience and knowledge about whats going on in order to make them work and even then it was sometimes a matter of having to shutdown and reboot is this my PC running Windows or a DVD Player? Then low and behond the PS3 shows up on the scene. Faster than even 1000 SD DVD players to start up, transparent menus, lossless HD Audio, all wrapped up in a game console that the grandkids can play with? Sign me now my Sony Bravia SXRD 60 screen has taken on a life of its own, the Planet Earth series has yet to not WOW anyone whos seen it and totally entrance them for as long as they can stand to watch. Everybody wants more! Its a shame that the studios arent doing a better job of transferring their current titles to Blu-Ray as some of them are less than stellar. So, in response to the original question, it has always been the well informed hypothesis that Blu-Ray would eventually win the war since it was the only one that would support full 1080p transfer rates. We that held to that philosophy were only holding out for an affordabe player that wouldnt require a Masters Degree to operate. Now that the PS3 is available AND you can use it as a full fledged Web Browser and Photo whats holding YOU back? I will not be buying a Blue ray player and I will not purchase a PS Theyre both over priced and overrated. HD DVD is clearly the better choice and I will just stick with it until they discontinue the movies as well. Mean while I will keep stocking up on the HD DVDs as they get cheaper and love and mary ending my HD player as an up convert player for regular dvds.