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I'm guessing it has something to do with a guy named Kevin Smith.

Ah. Oh well, so much for thinking I'm special!

I think so, too. I sent in for the replacement discs just a couple of days before the deadline (as is my wont) and received the replacements last week. However, I didn't receive the discs and insert, as advertised. I received a brand new, shrink-wrapped DVD. So, not only does it sometimes pay to...

That's assuming no overlap between the 4% and the 5%, which is a pretty big assumption. It could be as low as 14% of HDTV owners owning a player (which is certainly absurd, that the 4% is all captured in the 5%, but I think it's wishful thinking to assume no one surveyed falls into both the 4%...

Well, duh.

It is pretty well done, but credit should be given to the originals (as far as I'm aware, please correct me if there are versions older than these): Somebody Stole Hitler's Car Which spawned the first media commentary iteration: Hitler Gets Banned from Xbox Live

Seeing as Band of Brothers was episodic television running around an hour an installment, there would be absolutely no quality concerns due to space limitations. The only concern would be a few extra discs. But, hey, just saying those numbers seems to make some people feel better, so who am I...

The part of me that still hasn't caught up to the end of the format war thinks there will definitely be some sort of retail trade-out engineered so that each trade is somehow counted as a sale, thereby creating many a press release trumpeting the overwhelming consumer response to the end of the...

Yeah, any mechanism where you had to trade in your player would be completely silly, since for the average consumer with only one player, that really would doom their entire HD collection to obsolescence. But some sort of plan to exchange your dual-format titles for a rebate on the Blu-Ray...

Good to know. Thanks.

This is a great point of concern that I hadn't even thought of. Can anyone offer any insight as to what the PS3 does?

Considering how selective I've been to date with my HD double dips (except King Kong, since it came in the box), I wouldn't buy either the theatrical or extended cuts on their own, since I own both already. I would double dip for both in one package, though. Which means I'll be waiting until...

Thanks for the input, Romier. So what you're telling me is I want one of the two models that are no longer widely available. Sigh...

Thanks a bunch, Shane (and Edwin and Zack). That's exactly what I was looking for. Now, one last question (I promise): When it comes to hardware vs. software emulation, with the exception of the hardware solution working with more games, as Edwin said, is there any difference functionally...

Do I have any concerns with backwards compatability with any of the PD3s, or am I misremembering something I heard?

It all depends on the console it's connected to. Having a first-gen 360 (and never a problem of any type, RROD or otherwise, knock on wood), I've got mine running through the VGA connection. Any input on the differences between the PS3 SKUs?

Well, I have to say, my 360 add-on is simpler to use than any standalone media player of any type I've ever owned, particularly for anyone even marginally familiar with the 360's interface. Plus, any disc inserted while the unit is already on boots up immediately, and it did come with a great...

Thanks, David. My main problem with picking up a PS3 is temptation. I buy too many movies and games as it is. Right now, it's easy to not pick up PS3 games, since I don't have a PS3, and the same would be true if I went Blu-Ray standalone. But the minute I picked up a PS3 for Blu-Ray playback...

I asked this in the Warner thread, but no one seems to want to offer a guess: David, if I'm looking to buy a 2.0 player for around 250 bucks, how long do you think I'll be waiting?

Exactly. I know I'm guilty of purchasing something on release week that, if I hadn't happened to go to the store that week and seen fifty copies of it occupying prime real estate on the new-release shelf, I probably would not have purchased it. I'm not proud of this fact, but it's definitely...

Even with the headstart in the market and all those consoles already in the wild, the 360 is still outselling the PS3 month-to-month.

Yes, they were (I can see where my previous post was poorly worded; I meant releasing specific titles on DIVX first once the format was launched). Searching for specific DIVX release dates at this point is a fruitless task, but the first two examples I can give you are Armageddon and Air Bud 2...

Yeah, it's not like they were releasing titles on DIVX before DVD or anything. Oh, wait, yeah they were.

That's a bit disingenuous, don't you think, considering DIVX wasn't launched until 1998?

And let's not forget where Disney threw their support in the DVD/DIVX "war."

I still think the Ultimate Superman Collection was planned as the big launch title for Total HD. Now that it's dead, I'm hoping that means the Collection will come out on each format individually sooner rather than later.

The Blu-Ray apologists are all over the map regarding this sale. Let me see if I can get this straight: The problem with the format war is that it inhibits the mass adoption of HDM. However, this sale -- which is certain to be one of the top three new-user-generating events in the history of...

If we take the recently reported 115,000 figure as the total number of Transformers discs sold, that means the best-selling BD title of the week sold under 11,000 copies, in the midst of heavy BOGO discounting, and everything else on both formats sold even less than that. This also means the...

At this point, I have no idea what your point is. All I'm saying is you're welcome to say both positive and negative things about both formats, just don't try to sell anyone a line about not having said anything negative.

Are you not the one who used the term "ass-whooping"?