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Well, DOS had to use a device driver to be able to read CD-ROM drives too. What I meant about the BIOS is that any device which is ATAPI-compliant (what today's optical drives use) can be installed in it and understood by the controllers on the motherboard. Windows uses its drivers to interface...

Well, the BIOS is the part of the computer that has to do the interfacing. Which means that if you install a blu-ray device, you can use that as well :) XP is compatible with DVDs, but you still need a third party decoder to actually play them in Windows Media Player. By the way, have none...

Longhorn is the codename for Microsoft's next OS. It should be released late 2005/2006. They say it's gonna be HD-DVD compatible. Whatever that means...

Well, there are no TVs with an aspect ratio of 2.35:1, is there? I guess an anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 movie would only work on a projector capable of handling custom aspect ratios.

You forgot variable resolutions. No reason to add black bars to the compressed image, and the players should be able to resize the image on TVs that can't handle it. VC-9....what about MPEG-4?