Poll: Are $200 Blu-ray players cheap enough for you?

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DrXym @ Sep 28th 2008 6:09AM

It's pretty lame to claim blu ray is too much of an investment when a viable alternative still doesn't exist. And no, VOD is not a viable alternative. Neither is it "good enough" if you actually want to own your movies rather than rent them or have them subject to the whims and mercies of some cable provider. Once industry adopts a common digital format (with DRM or without) that allows people to buy to own from a variety of stores and play from a variety of devices with reasonable fair use THEN you might have a point. But not now.

As for the DVD laptop comment. that is just lame really. Why not moan that your laptop doesn't have enough to space to hold more than a handful of 5Gb downloads while you're at it? Besides BD drives are fairly affordable and becoming more common in desktops and laptops. I'll add that since you claim AACS and BD+ to be useless it should be fairly trivial to rip unprotected movies for your travels if you so desire.

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