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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3978692" data-attributes="member: 7883">My understanding is that they've got content using those features with "300", Bourne Ultimatum, and Blood Diamond so far.My player isn't hooked up to the net, as I don't have a router near my TV, so I haven't experienced this content, though I do have all three of the movies.As to its utility.....well.....everyone can find uses, or lack of use in particular features.  Personally, I question how useful a 200 GB Blu-Ray disk is.  Movies don't require *that* much space, and as a means of backing up a system it's sub-optimal.  Would you really *want* to put 200 gig of content on a disk that can be wrecked by a simple scratch or by being slightly bent or something, when trying to get it out of a case?Personally, I'd rather a good portal HD unit.  I've got DVD-R's that I barely use as is.  Sure, they're cheap, but storing them's a pain, and I find my $100 portable hard drive that I can connect via USB to be way more useful.I'm not blasting either technology.  I wish they would just merge the two or something.  The whole thing is largely a "who's got the biggest d#$%" contest by a bunch of nerds <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I think both technologies are good....frankly, there's no picture difference that I can see, as I've got one player, and have seen the other elsewhere.  There was really no need to have a format war in the first place, if Sony had been willing to share its toys, instead of trying to develop control over their standard of choice.  The unfortunate thing is that this is all largely in the interests of the companies, but not the customers.  At this point, if one technology wins, you're either going to have millions of people with HDDVD players who are left out in the cold, or millions of people with Blu-Ray players.  Which isn't good for customers in any case.Hopefully development/sales of dual-format players continues, prices come down, etc. and in another year, instead of getting a Blu-Ray player, I get a dual-format one, and then I'll be covered, whoever wins.It's a hard choice....stay out of the next gen completely, and remain with standard DVD?  Well, if you do, whenever a clear standard is determined, you've got *that* many more standard DVDs to replace.  Or buy in, and risk choosing the wrong side.It'll be interesting to see what will happen though.  If Blu-Ray does win, what happens to XBox?  Does Sony turn around and deny Microsoft the right to use a Blu-Ray drive in the XBox 3?  That could be grounds for an anti-trust lawsuit right there.Banshee</blockquote>

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