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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 3978438" data-attributes="member: 149">Given that there are no shipping or AFAIK even announced movies on triple layer disks. It's purely theoretical. Blu-Ray can pull off the same trick and at 25gb vs 17gb per layer, they'll continue to hold a significant edge in capacity. They're due to come out with at least 4 layer disks FWIW.I can see no reason why an internet connected Blu-Ray player should be incompatible with older blu-ray disks. Perhaps you meant the "existing players"?I'm not really seeing the point of an "internet" connected disk movie player to be perfectly honest. Granted it does add some ability to "update" the disks and I suppose potentially make for some sort of downloadable movie source. But it seems mostly like a feature in search of a use. I mean if they've got the content produced, why can't they just stick it on an additional disk? It's not like multi-disk movies and/or additional content disks are rare, unknown or horribly more expensive. It also opens the specter of what happens when the service or servers that provide this content get shut down. A number of people have already gotten burned by various download services, like Wal-mart's recently shuttered one, that left what people had payed for either crippled or even unavailable.While yes most of the older Blu-Ray players won't be able to support internet connectivity (they lack an ethernet port), by factors of ten, the most common Blu-Ray player is the PS3 which has all the necessary hardware (and then some like wireless). So I'm not seeing this as being a major liability, since all PS3s should need is a software update (they already support internet access after all).Has anyone come out with some compelling additional content that does take advantage of it? I know that "300" is supposed to take advantage of this feature, but it seems to largely consist of being able to create your own "cuts" of the movie.<a href="http://krisabel.ctv.ca/blog/_archives/2007/7/31/3131033.html" target="_blank">http://krisabel.ctv.ca/blog/_archives/2007/7/31/3131033.html</a></blockquote>

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