Toshiba surrenders!

It was posted, no harm though. To see that Microsoft is looking at making the Xbox Bluray compatible is interesting.

not to mention that some of the titles, while they will move over to Blu when Uni/Paramount eventually switch,   will probably not be released for 2-3 years if at ever, based on their less than stellar sales so far.   what the war showed early is that  blu fanbois and the majority of the blubase (ps3) is not interested in old classics and catalogues,  only new releases and major action/sci fi    films.

lmao, i just read a stat that only 7% of {usa} domestic bluray titles are available (legally) in australia so far.

you just gotta love region coding!       go-go-outdated-korprit interests

A20 for $99.00 and 5 free HD-DVD movies. I spent more drinking in a weekend, back when I used to drink. 

What I'm lovin about this is the twats who went out and bought the Toshiba units here and paid top dollar for them cos they just had to be the first ones to have it and are now stuck with redunant technology.

Suck it up champ!!

You're probably the same fools that went out and bought Beta.

Stop complaining and go sit in a Starbuck$ and enjoy your mocha latte half caf!!

Fair point, but to be honest, a large percentage of the population would be too stupid to notice. The same people who voted for Dan Browns Da Vinci Code as the greatest book / novel of all time. The same people who think art house films are about some dude who owns an art gallery. The same people who can't pronounce Film Noir let alone spell it. The same people who discuss cinematography at dinner parties and know *fudge* all what they're talking about and lastly they're the same people who wouldn't recognise the significance of a plot point if it came up and bit them on the ass...

*rant on*

for the record,  just to get it off my chest,  I didn't pay top dollar for my players, i got all of them heavily below msrp, and two essentially for free,   and while yes, i do have software that runs the risk of being  useless someday (if i no longer have hardware to play it...hence my 'suck it ip and buy a backup player.  no biggie)   it's no big deal to me at this point... as i don't expect it to happen.

it's far  harder to 'suck up' the fact that a far far far more anticonsumer-procorporation  technology won, largely on bribes, rather than letting consumers really pick what they wanted.   in the end, i'll have $300-$400 in players extra spent, but I'll be watching hd-dvds and  blurays (eventually)  likely till both are obsolete.  over that 8-10 year window, the extra player cost will far be offset by both enjoyable use over the time frame, and , as well, the fact I would wager some of the titles i now have on hd-dvd will likely not be on bluray at all-  their sales tanked on hd-dvd-  studios aren't impressed with catalogue sales.

i would not , even knowing what i know now about who 'won'  buy into blu ray 1 year ago, 6 months ago, or even yet today.  it's a piece of crap evolving format that only offers (to date) crippled hardware, mediocre software, and excessive DRM.   (i would still have bought into hd-dvd, although I likely would have bought a few less hd-dvd titles-- i would have waited till the current firesales.  that is all)

*rant off*