Originally posted by: MeBeJedi

For the moron of the boards. That's the AACS code for BOTH Blu-ray and HD-DVD.
But Blu-Ray still has BD+. Have fun upgrading your Blu-Ray players everytime someone cracks the latest movie title.

Yes, I know. I was simply pointing out that they key posted by sean is for both Blu-ray and HD-DVD.

Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Think about it - while in competition with HD-DVD, what you are getting from BR is the same encode/quality with a more expensive player ! WHAT A BARGAIN! What, then, is the value of Blu-Ray? Even the list given by dumb_kid doesn't break 40Gbs. I'm wondering how many of those discs are breaking 30Gnbs due to extra features such as extra commentaries (which would benefit from a higher bitrate) or extra material. That being said, I'm all for the extra material, but I don't think you are going to see video encodes with higher bitrates when HD-DVD is gone. There's no point at that point.

I think this is what MBJ has been getting at. Once HD-DVD is gone, what makes you think the studios are going to use a higher bitrate? They have no incentive to do that. "We'll get better picture quality!" The studios don't care. All they care about is making money. With HD-DVD gone, that'll be one less expense. Why bother with going with a higher bitrate when the picture looks fine as it is?