Re: Treat this as Rumor for now... But Micro$oft...

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Do you think MS actually thinks waaaay into the future? I mean one thing is 5 yrs or less, but more?

You are forgetting that this is Micro$oft you are talking about

This is M$ 8-year plan, they already have the feature set and artwork ready for the Windows 14 Operating System(Codename: "JusticeDeptartment"), along with the Intel CoreX26 processor and the 550 Gigs of DDR7 RAM you will need to run it.

Figure Solid State 500TB drives will be in the sub-$100 range then, and your brain will have an embedded neural interface chip that can store 40000 3240p HD movies with lossless video and sound and 7.1 audio tracks in 4 dozen languages.

Blu-ray will only be remembered as a failed flavor of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream.

GUAM will have become the US Capitol, and Cuba the 55th State, following Canada becoming the 54th State re-named as North Montana, and President Oprah Winfrey will be campaigning for her second term in Office, but facing a strong battle from North Texico Gov. Dr. Ron Paul, due to her recent Troop surge against the Government of Switzerland because of the recent discovery of their Swiss Army Knives of Mass Destruction.

Oh, and your HD DVD player still works as well as the day you bought it.

Yup, this is the future folks, and Micro$oft will be bringing it to you.

Yet even more ANTI Blu-ray bitterness by VC...

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"Blu-ray will only be remembered as a failed flavor of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream."

Please don't let your personal bad PS3 experience [needed repair] lead to a rejection of Blu-ray Hi-Def - you do a disservice to the format.

-JIMI (the Voodoo Child)

Hendrix, lighten up, its Friday night, have a few beers and relax, maybe laugh a bit, or don't you understand what humor is all about.

Plus Ben & Jerry's already have Wavy Gravy and Cherry Garcia, what's a little Blu Ray flavor gonna hurt you??

Ben & Jerry's is WAY overrated and overpriced.

Here in Texas we love BLUE BELL!

And they've got that word 'blue' in their name too! (hehe)

-JIMI (the Voodoo Child)

Hendrix, FYI I did get my P$3 back today, the kids watched Ratatouille on it already, and I'm working on running it through the first 2 Terminator movies and Die Hard 1.

So good so far, hopefully this one lives.

I went back to Netflix and already have Independence Day and No Country for Old Men in the Blu ray queue.

They did mean to scratch the case up pretty bad on one corner, but I can live with that as long as it keeps reading discs.

Good God you guys are geeks! See you in the parkinglot later where I'll kick your ass!

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It seems Toshiba was losing $200 per player at the third gen pricing level, in hopes to compete with BR.

All those who have argued at how overpriced the Blu-ray players are should take note of this. It's a fair comment to wait for a Profile 2.0 player that will compare to all the existing Toshiba player features, but those saying they demand a $100-$150 Profile 2.0 player soon have just been spoiled by Toshiba's business plan. Toshiba was losing big cash in order to try to build their HD market position (likely the same as Sony's approach with the PS3), and it had nothing to do with looking out for the well-being of the consumer. Hey, I picked up a cheap A30 too, but that doesn't mean that I expect to pay the same price for a Blu-ray player, as most of the companies are actually trying to make a profit now.

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I'm glad Blu-ray didn't use HDi, or else we'd have those crappy delayed menus on Blu-ray.

HD DVD was great for it's many useful standardized features. HDi was hardly one of HD DVD's strong points.

I really don't see what M$ could gain from bringing back HD-DVD. There is so much market confusion already, and then for HD-DVDs to go back into stores (with zero studio support mind you)... they would just be setting themselves up for disaster.