All these add ons and "features" (that no one really cares about) is just a way of trying to justify the higher prices. Most consumers simply want them to drop the prices instead of adding bloat to the disc. I just want to watch the movie and could care less about any commentary from the director's brother's cousin's roommate. Until the prices fall you wont see any increase in format adoption.

Are you kidding here?!?!?!? Its the NEWS! No one gives a s#$t. Most people couldn't care less about news in HD anyway.

Those are awesome!

Awesome Engadget editing strikes yet again...sheesh.

hahahaha i was just thinking the same thing. Boy I hope they work well cuz' they sure are ugly...wow.

and why not? Most HD movies are in the 4-6 GB range. Just because BD has a lot of storage space doesn't mean it gets used. You can easily and cheaply do HD on flash media.

hahahaha What?!?!? What do you mean "succeed Blu Ray"?!?!? WTF? It hasn't succeeded at all. Until Blu Ray has a decent share in the market, its not a success at all. At this point its sales are dismal at best as consumers are opting out. The only way this technology survives is if they push hard in the digital storage/PC market AND make it affordable (as flash media is getting cheaper by the day). I'd hardly be waving the Blu-Ray flag at this point.

Wow.... I did basically the same thing for like um... $900. A referbished Mac mini, 1TB of external storage, and slingbox.... done.

Agreed. This movie blows no matter what format its on. I downloaded it in HD and stopped watching 2/3rds of the way thru as I was falling asleep. Plus no one's shelling out the $$$ for Blu Ray discs anyway, and especially not for crappy titles.

Basically yeah. Why even bother with the door when with most of todays low construction standards the noise is just as likely coming thru the walls. Some people much have way too much money and nothing to spend it on perhaps.