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AMEN!! :D :emoji_thumbsup: I'm glad this ugly war is finally over. With no more worries about competing formats, the Blu-ray Disc Association can now concentrate on efforts to lower the cost of players (so everybody who's bought a widescreen TV set with HDMI inputs will more likely buy a...

I think we should not get into arguments about AVC versus VC-1 video encoding on the Blu-ray format from now on, since most Blu-ray players support decoding both formats. After all, Dolby Digital and DTS audio encoding pretty much co-exist reasonably peacefully despite competing against each...

It's not so far-fetched--even Microsoft back at CES this year admitted they could offer an external Blu-ray player drive for the Xbox 360 if the market wants it. I wouldn't be surprised that Microsoft does offer such a drive by June-July 2008 time frame.

Even if Apex didn't show up on the scene the price of DVD players by late 2001 from the major manufacturers had already started to rapidly fall, thanks to the arrival of more integrated DVD player chipsets and moving a lot of DVD player production to China. In fact, by 2003 all the major...

But I personally think we will not have this battle for one reason: Blu-ray discs will be primarily intended for widescreen movies and TV shows that were recorded in HDTV format in the first place, while DVD's will be intended for older movies and older TV shows that were recorded in the...

Now that a number of companies have started to ship new Blu-ray console player chipsets that will dramatically reduce the cost of console players, I expect possibly as early as September 2008 Profile 1.1 players dropping under US$200 and Profile 2.0 players dropping under US$250; these price...

Let's face it folks. HD-DVD will soon be phased out. The combination of Best Buy and Wal-Mart retail chains (THE two largest "brick and mortar" retailers in terms of video software) going Blu-Ray exclusively by this summer is one of two final blows that will finish off the HD-DVD format. The...

After reading much of this message thread, a couple of comments: 1) How good is upconversion from DVD 480p resolution to 720p/1080i/1080p? I'm sure that a properly mastered DVD such as most Pixar movies will look GREAT upconverted to a higher resolution and shown on a good non-CRT...