blu ray is a mess:

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-3 different profiles of players..

-some players don't support DVD's,

-backwards compatibility is not compulsory.

-region coding...

- and of course the crazy DRM schemes (which have been broken), but

still backing them up is a complete pain..

i might give in and by a dual blu-ray/HD DVD drive just to be able to

play the inevitable movies that will be blu-ray ONLY..... just like i

need a laserdisc for movies ONLY in that format, or a DVD player

for DVD only movies..... it's just one more unnecessary piece of

hardware being pushed out there..

granted going digital only has its drawbacks also, especially concerning

disk space, but with 1T drives dropping, the problem is having a fast

connection to 'get' the files, or 'backup' your physical discs.. of course

hard disk failure is always going to be an issue too..

unfortunately unless YET ANOTHER FUTURE FORMAT comes out, with people

looking ahead to address these problems with HD content, we're just going

to go through this cycle yet again with something else (hopefully NOT BLU-RAY 2,3 etc)

later

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