It's looking more and more likely that Blu-ray will win this stupid war.
I personally won't be buying into it until there is a player that does everything that the format can do, and at present thats none of them
My list of player requirements
1) It needs to support all the audio codec's fully
2) Have 7.1 analogue outputs as well as HDMI 1.3
3) Support ALL forms of interactivity (this is a big one and what a mess that is
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4) Output the raw 1080p/24 data direct from the disc w/o any conversions within the player(IIRC current 1080p/24 output players actually convert to 1080i/60 then back to 1080p24 before it's spit out of the player
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5) Be region free or at least have a region free crack for both DVD and Blu-ray(I'm from Australia, so no legal please
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6) And all of this for under AU$1000(Panasonic DMP-BD10 RRP AU$2749:raped: )
So as you can see I'll be waiting for a while yet and seriously No's1-5 should have been the players minimum support from the start, get your act together guys you've had over 5 years to sort this out
*rant over.....now back to our regular programming*
cheers
