This isn't related to Blu-ray player prices, but I still found it interesting:

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/mytwocentsa160.html#ironps3

That's the just released Iron Man Blu-ray disc. Why in the hell does the disc even need to go online and download this content the first time it's played? And for that matter, shouldn't this setting be set to disabled or prompt when it leaves the factory? If I buy a disc, and thankfully I've decided to just continue buying DVDs, I want to watch it when I get home, not download a whole bunch of extra crap. And besides all that, why not just put this extra stuff on another disc? Does the content get downloaded to a hard drive? What happens if the drive crashes? Do I lose all the content or do I have to download it again? What happens if the studio suddenly decides that they don't want people to have that content anymore? Will the disc automatically delete it?

I'm pretty sure this is the type of thing that all the anti-Blu-ray crowd was railing about before Blu-ray won. I see no need for something like this. If there's extra content to put out with a movie, just put it on another disc.