Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 06/29/07 21:32

In article <89idnZ57BpCp6xjbnZ2dnUVZ_sWdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
Derek Janssen <ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:

> 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--

Actually it is a $499 gamble to be technically correct... ;-)

But both POTCs play just fine on all the players out now. With the
exception of the PS3, they all load it very slowly though. Gives you
enough time to get a beer that way!

>
> 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.
>
I don't buy many disks, usually rent them.

> > 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

Warner can talk all they want, what really is holding some of the
studios off is the new BD+ that they just all swear will be unbreakable.
I agree with them, it will be unbreakable for about a month.

MOST of us want to watch the damn movie and don't even care about all
the extraneous BS they put on those multi-disk sets of SDs or on the Hi
Def disks. But the studios seemed humped up over it, well that and
being able to do those 'cute' ever slower menus they keep coming up with.

Hi Def disks are still very much niche and will remain that way until
pricing comes WAY down from the current prices, both hardware and movies.

I have both Hi Defs and like both, but I can see why others might not
want them yet.

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