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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Blu-Ray did it with lobbying their product to WB. After that it was down hill and it went pretty fast down hill for HD. It seems that HD had MS and they were going to try to ride their coat tails to get over the format war. But Blu-Ray beat them to it by going for the movie companies first. IMO that's where Blu-Ray won this battle. This is just the same as the Beta vs. VHS war back in the day. At least this time, the format war didn't take as long. I remember in the 80's we had both player types. Live and learn from that one. As far as the PS3 being your Blu-Ray player of choice, it's not a bad one. However, using the console controller to navigate a movie sucks. I am sure there is or will be, an add on controller though. I would like to see HD become the format for online video viewing. Netflix dropped carrying HD movies in their stock. However, what could happen is that the HD format become the online video viewing format. Not sure if any of you have it or have seen it, but the quality from the Netflix online service, isn't really that great. It would eat up some serious bandwidth to do it, but it would be great to see HD quality through Netflix. That being said, that is a sure fire way for the cable companies to back it. Since Time Warner is currently testing the "pay for what you use" theme, if it goes through, what better way to insure that the bandwidth goes up for users? Have them watch HD movies on their computer via the web. That would jack the bill up for them ;) Later, C:\ Loading...
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