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[animejump]

oh boy, awesome, I got the new UP blu-ray, let's put it in and watch the Dug short before Law & Order: SVU comes on

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...so this blu-ray thing is basically a scam, huh?

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[animejump]

I'm really trying to resist buying a standalone player, because I'm just so fucking sick of throwing money at this little issue. I like blu-ray, in principle. I was happy buying an OEM drive for my media PC ($79), and wasn't too put out when I later learned I'd need to also buy a Radeon HD card to crunch the numbers for HD playback ($20). Got that installed, and the thing played Advent Children and Tekkonkinreet like a charm

[loopychew]

While Dug was awesome, I have to object to the idea that he was the best part of the movie "by far." This is only true if you consider the Carl/Ellie backstory a separate movie, which it is not (although the mood whiplash makes that consideration understandable).

I've yet to buy a Blu-Ray drive because I figure the reason I'm buying'em is to play them in my home theatre setup, anyway. If I do get one, it's only so I can rip them into AVIs for my media server/M4Vs for my iWhatsit.

Also, yeah, I'm using a PS3 for my HT setup. What can I say? It works.

[tikistitch]

You're trying to use a PC to actually do something? *tsk* ^_^

We have a Sony standalone player that's just great on Blu, but it's awfully tetchy about what DVDs it likes to play. A friend of mine has a brand new TV that supposively you can pop a thumb drive into an just play from that - no fussing around with disks at all. Seems like that might be the way to go. I'm kind of getting tired of all my DVRs piling up everywhere.

[tochiro998]

Mike, I'm evil. Just buy a damn blu-ray player already. I just don't understand this fixation some folk have for NEEDING to watch stuff on their computer.

OTOH, you'll STILL be frustrated because the fools refuse to 'lock down' the standards, so you will run into problems where your brand new BD disk won't play right until you update the firmware.

(See: hardcore James Bond fans and the screaming over those discs)

And don't get me started on the potential evils of having your standalone player connected to your broadband, the fun of vanishing BD-Live 'extras' content, the annoyance that while BD discs are only semi-region coded, sadly BD-Live content IS region specific...