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I was waiting for the the players that do both HD DVD and Blu-ray. But I think I will just wait a little longer and just get streaming HD instead. I ultimately want to have a home based server that will deliver media and music content in HD to any TV, PC or stereo in my home. Screw the physical…

So “any smart customer will want Physical Media in their hands,” eh?  Tell that to iPod users.  And complaining about DRM in streaming media as an advantage to BluRay just doesn’t make any sense. BluRay backups?  That’s a good possibility, though.  As would be any good RAID system, et. al. But please stop the HD DUD talk—it makes me almost…

Video consumers haven’t decided at all—about 99% of homes still use standard DVD. Declarations that consumers have decided on blu-ray because a *game system* happened to come out with one of the next generation formats is just patently ridiculous. If the Xbox360 had come out with HD-DVD built-in, would the blu-ray fanboys concede that the “consumer has chosen”. Give me…

Looking at HD-DUD fanboys - one word comes to mind - sore losers.  Digital downloads my @ss.  Any smart customer will want Physical Media in their hands - DRM protected downloads are only as good as the company that provides them - the moment the company goes out of business, you’re left with a huge file that you can’t play. …

Soundzilla, Chinchilla, et. al., “Decades away,” eh?  Check out xstreamhd.com; they were at CES and are about to go into beta.  Oh, and their bitrate is almost double BluRay’s theoretical max.

The article says: “We all went gaga over 1080p TVs last year. They outdid 720p and 1080i TVs in terms of picture resolution…” Given that all the 1080p and 1080i TVs are either LCD or DLP and display their images digitally, there is no difference in resolution of a 1080i and 1080p television. In fact, a 1080i source at 50…

LOL, I love reading HD-DUD fanboyz ‘moving on’ to ‘digital downloads’...never fails. Your format lost and now you would rather support something that is still decades away from any real world use instead of the superior format… Real movie collectors will NEVER support crappy digital downloads. Time to join the BLU revolution!

Hey M: There is no official word on that. I believe that the DVR service isn’t per box; it’s just a flat fee per household (if anyone else knows otherwise, please chime in).... I am assuming it will just be one fee on top of that.

Is it $3 per box? I wonder if the pricing will be the same when Cox does this.

Very weird and Flintstone-esque.