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1. Comment - Sony reportedly in talks with Microsoft on Blu-ray for Xbox 360

   (Mar 8, 2008 - 4:24 PM)

   Roj, Blu-ray is no more proprietary than HD DVD was, in fact reasonable minds would consider it less proprietary because it had support of the vast majority of the industry. DVD and HD DVD were standardized in the DVD Forum. Blu-ray was standardized in the Blu-ray Disc Association. Both are non-profit industry associations seeking to develop and promote a specification for the benefit of their members. Both are open to anyone who chooses to join (and antes up the similar membership fees).
   
   Nothing proprietary about Blu-ray whatsoever.

2. Comment - Blu-ray: Early adopters knew what they were getting into

   (Jan 11, 2008 - 1:09 PM)

   Pridewalker writes "My APEX dvd player (bought in 2000) plays DVD's that I bought last week. Anyone who bought this machine has the right to the reasonable expectation that it will play each and every disc, and all of it's content."
   
   Except your Apex player won't play all the content on every disc. It won't play the DTS soundtrack on the many discs which have been released with it, for example. It'll still play the movie and the Dolby soundtrack, and you've been perfectly content with that, which is essentially the situation for Blu-ray owners of profile 1.0 machines. They'll still get to play EVERY MOVIE on their player. There may be a small amount of content on some discs which will be presented differently to them then to someone with a 1.1 player (i.e. as full-screen content rather than picture-in-picture content). It's really not the all-encompassing huge kick in the balls you make it out to be.
   
   I'm sorry you were let down by making a choice for a format which likely won't be around much longer, but your remarks with regards to Blu-ray are way, way overblown.

3. Comment - Blu-ray: Early adopters knew what they were getting into

   (Jan 11, 2008 - 1:04 PM)

   hackztor writes "thats the upper edge HDDVD had. The menus since the beginning. In Addition, all HDDVD discs had the special menus, only blueray discs from this time on do. Resident Evil was one of the firsts."
   
   WRONG. The only thing on Resident Evil not on previous discs and which won't work on all players is picture-in-picture as part of one of its many bonus features. Every prior Blu-ray disc has had menus, most of them pop-up. And if, as you say, you "just want to watch a DVD", the chance are you're not digging too deeply into the bonus content to begin with. EVERY BLU-RAY MOVIE WILL PLAY ON EVERY BLU-RAY PLAYER.

4. Comment - Blu-ray: Early adopters knew what they were getting into

   (Jan 11, 2008 - 1:01 PM)

   SGD writes "Tell that to the 500,000 that bought stand alones and are about be screwed with no lub curtesy of Sony."
   
   How exactly are they being screwed? They'll continue to be able to watch every movie on their player. They'll continue to be able to watch all the deleted scenes, all the gag reels, hear all the director's commentary, etc.

5. Comment - Blu-ray: Early adopters knew what they were getting into

   (Jan 11, 2008 - 12:59 PM)

   CJB110 claims "there is nothing in the bluray specs that gaurantee a base level of functionality." Of course there is. EVERY Blu-ray player must support all the video codecs and a full set of audio codecs which ENSURES THAT EVERY MOVIE WILL PLAY ON EVERY PLAYER. PERIOD.