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    Image of frigg frigg
    09/12/09

    In reply to Meet the $135,000 Blu-ray Player That's Missing Features $200 Players Have
    As an Amish person (Mennonite, actually), I have to say it looks suspiciously like an old sewing table.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    09/12/09

    In reply to Meet the $135,000 Blu-ray Player That's Missing Features $200 Players Have
    its expensive so it must be good. i will take a dozen.
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    Image of Invisible-Echidna Invisible-Echidna
    09/11/09

    In reply to Meet the $135,000 Blu-ray Player That's Missing Features $200 Players Have
    It's expensive, and fancy looking. It MUST be better. Does it produce hyper-high-definition quality or something? No? Okay, never mind, then...
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    Edited by Invisible-Echidna at 09/11/09 7:33 PM Invisible-Echidna was starred Invisible-Echidna was unstarred
    Image of nightwheel nightwheel
    09/11/09

    In reply to Meet the $135,000 Blu-ray Player That's Missing Features $200 Players Have

    Now if I can just remember what that Blu Ray Player that Giz is talking about reminds me of.......
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    omgwtflolbbqbye promoted this comment Edited by nightwheel at 09/11/09 6:02 PM nightwheel was starred nightwheel was unstarred
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    09/11/09

    @nightwheel: They had about the same pricing strategy too.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    09/11/09

    In reply to Meet the $135,000 Blu-ray Player That's Missing Features $200 Players Have
    $135,000 and you get a cheapo display you get on Walmart brand DVD player. Classy.
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    Image of SacGamer SacGamer
    09/11/09

    In reply to Meet the $135,000 Blu-ray Player That's Missing Features $200 Players Have
    Blu-Ray will never enjoy widespread adoption? What drugs are you on?
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    09/11/09

    @SacGamer: none, its very unlikely Blu-Ray will ever have the adoption that DVD had to the masses.

    This is well known though often disputed. Its certainly never going to penetrate the computer realm like CD or DVD did thats for sure. And for many people even with HD tvs, DVD or digital transmission like Netflix to a 360 is just good enough.

    While its not going to be dead in the water like HD-DVD is, its going to much more likely be this generations laserdisk.
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    Image of jamjen jamjen
    09/11/09

    @SacGamer: It's a valid argument. Physical media may very well be on the way out, especially optical. With streaming HD content, downloadable media, it's quite possible BD will not take the market. Speculation.

    I just built a new rig, and almost went completely optical-less, but did end up getting a BD player (actually bought it for my DVD collection, and decided why not go for it), although I doubt I'll ever purchase a disc. Goodbye $100
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    Image of SacGamer SacGamer
    09/11/09

    @jamjen: Streaming HD content does not look nearly as good as blu-ray, and will not anytime soon. And as long as some ISP's have bandwidth caps, it will always be inferior.

    Physical media will be around as long as people like me want quality. Digital media has a LONG ways to go.

    Basically, in order for physical media to go away, EVERYTHING about digital media needs to change and improve. Because as it stands, it's only for people with bad eyesight or low standards.
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    Edited by SacGamer at 09/11/09 5:55 PM SacGamer was starred SacGamer was unstarred
    Image of jackbling jackbling
    09/11/09

    @SacGamer: im sure your response comes from ignorance(not meant as an insult in any way, just no other word will suffice), you can stream hd content(blueray level/1080p) perfectly fine on your 5mb connection, and beyond that resolution.

    A proper blueray rip is identical to the physical media. as long as you can download the file faster than it plays its all golden, even a 5 gig video is feasable to stream/download on a reasonable connection(5mb would take several hours to download however)
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    spannu promoted this comment jackbling was starred jackbling was unstarred
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    09/11/09

    @jackbling: Streaming Blu-ray from a disc (or a file on a media server) requires anywhere from 20-50 mbit/s, and the specs allow for much higher rates than that. The resolution isn't as important as the actual image detail and compression levels.

    The example you gave is basically only useful for people who are torrenting a movie/ripping one and streaming it elsewhere at the same time. Even if it is possible to stream true HD content (and many people do), it's certainly not via Netflix, YouTube, or Hulu, or any legal video service for that matter.
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    09/11/09

    @jackbling: You think a 5 Mbit/s connection is equivalent to the 36 Mbit/s data rate of a single-layer 25 GB Blu-ray? Words fail me.

    It's only streamable at 5 Mbit/s if people re-rip into another format, which they almost always do.
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    09/11/09

    In reply to Meet the $135,000 Blu-ray Player That's Missing Features $200 Players Have
    So this begs the question, is it better to be smart enough to know that this is crap or to be rich enough to afford it???
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    Edited by Homerjay is utterly alone. at 09/11/09 5:18 PM Homerjay is utterly alone. was starred Homerjay is utterly alone. was unstarred
    Image of eriegz eriegz
    09/11/09

    @Homerjay likes Belgiumese Puke Porn: It's always better to have smarts.
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    09/11/09

    @eriegz: Well... Save for the Paris Hiltons of the world, how does one get rich enough to afford this without have some smarts??

    I guess all they need are 50 Paris Hiltons.
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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    09/11/09

    In reply to Meet the $135,000 Blu-ray Player That's Missing Features $200 Players Have
    Next self-styled audiophile who tells me my Bose 301s are over-priced gets a punch in the nose, OK?
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/11/09

    In reply to Meet the $135,000 Blu-ray Player That's Missing Features $200 Players Have
    I do not want to meet the dude whose media room decor goes with this device.

    ....Looks like the inside of a VCR, for the love of crap...
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    Edited by OCEntertainment at 09/11/09 5:12 PM OCEntertainment was starred OCEntertainment was unstarred
    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    09/11/09

    In reply to Meet the $135,000 Blu-ray Player That's Missing Features $200 Players Have
    I'll never understand why the people who can afford these things also happen to have the IQ of a walnut.
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    Image of madog madog
    09/11/09

    @NeoAkira: Well, the person might be smart enough to steal money from people or work the stock market, but just because they throw around money for useless shit like this doesn't make completely retarded.
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