Posted by Derek Janssen on 06/29/07 21:17

Lloyd Parsons wrote:
>>
>>Uh-hahhh, yes, but read the small print carefully:
>>Five free Blu disks *if* you buy a hardware Blu player through Sept. 30,
>>2007...
>>And WHAT happens to hardware Blu players on Oct. 1, kiddies? 9_9
>
> You're trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
>
> On 10/31/2007 a new requirement will be in place. After that the new
> players will have to be able to do some things, like PIP, that they
> don't do now.
>
> BUT, the old players will still be able to play the movies, even the
> ones with the new added 'features'.

Yeah, just that it'll still be that much more of a diceroll (NPI)
whether your machine will be able to play Pirates 2 after the Firmware
patch, just as it's that much of a $699 gamble now--

Sounds like they know WE know we're sitting on our hands waiting for the
Standards requirement, and that that's why the existing patch-needed
players haven't been moving off the shelves as of late.
Fortunately, there *aren't* five Blu disks on the list yet that I'd own
as keepers, so they'll need a better incentive than that to bribe me
away from doing my tech-spec homework beforehand.

> So unless you just dig those PIPed
> running commentaries from the director about what he had for lunch and
> such, it just doesn't matter... ;-)

Need I remind you, as Digital Bits points out, that Warner has stated
there is currently ONE reason why the now dual-format studio hasn't
remastered many of its early PiP and extras-loaded HD's such as "Batman
Begins" for Blu-Ray yet.

And if the specific technical excuses for *not* being able to PiP what
Christopher Nolan had for lunch is what is singlehandedly keeping
"Begins" off of a respectable Blu player and keeping the HD war going, I
SAY WE -FIX- 'EM, F***IN' PRONTO!!!!! @_@

Derek Janssen (sometimes, it all comes down to simple reasons)
ejanss@comcast.net

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