Uh, yeah, the critic did in fact take the product through customs:

"Of course, the real test happens at the airport, and I am happy to report that things actually went smooth; on a flight from Chicago to Amsterdam the bag unfolded and went through the X-Ray machine without any TSA agents yelling and screaming."

Since the Globe and Mail uses a four-star rating system (as do many movie reviewers), I would say that four stars out of four is a pretty damn good review.

Infrant's ReadyNAS line also serves iTunes.

xVariable, sure it is. 1280 is 25% more than 1024.

"This is something that can't be fixed. HDDVD is stuck at 30GB max."

Actually, triple-layer 45GB are expected in the not to distant future. Not quite as much space at double-layer Blu-ray discs, but close.

Intrepid (#2): Now if only they'd make a drive completely from flash memory.

They do, however the price is in the five-figure range.

Alex: This disc contains six layers, not eight.

"Traditional" Blu-ray discs hold 25GB per layer. This new disc (to be pedantic, it isn't technically Blu-ray since it isn't part of the current spec; same goes for JVC's hybrid Blu-ray/DVD disc) holds 33GB on each layer; hence six layers for 200GB.

This bump in layer capacity makes me doubt that any announced Blu-ray player could play these 200GB discs. It's also using a substrate with different optical properties that existing players won't be tuned for.

Some time in the late 90s, Wired's Webmonkey published an introduction to Flash 3 (http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/98/25/index1a.html).

I read the article, downloaded the free trial and within 24 hours I'd produced a 60-second cartoon.

Wow. So much mis-information.

Kevin (12): "DVD and HD-DVD use the same type of laser."

No they don't. DVD uses a red laser with a wavelength of 650nm. HD-DVD (and Blu-ray) uses a blue-violet laser with a 405nm wavelength. (CD's, by the way, use a 780nm infra-red laser).

The smaller pits on a HD-DVD cannot be red with the DVD's red laser. No current device can read HD-DVD or Blu-ray content.

The only similarity between DVD and HD-DVD lasers is that they are both focussed on a substrate layer 0.6mm deep. (Blu-ray's substrate is 0.1mm deep, much closer to the disc surface, which necessitates the scratch-proof coating.)

Jared (23): "sony and universal have decided to only limit output resolution to the current 480p standard if the hdcp chain is incomplete"

You're talking about the Image Constraint Token (ICT) which is part of AACS, not HDCP. If enabled (and this is done on a disc by disc basis) output over a non-HDCP connection will be down-sampled to 540p.

Sony, Universal and pretty much everyone other than Warner have announced that they will not enable ICT on their initial releases and will leave it disabled for the foreseeable future. (How long the "foreseeable future" is remains to be seen.)

Should a studio decide to enable ICT, it must be clearly labeled as such on the cover (just as current DVD packaging must show region, aspect ratio, PAL/NTSC/SECAM and other info).

If you follow the links to the panel specs, the claimed viewing angle is 90/90/90/90. In other words, 180 degrees horizontally and vertically.