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I'm very dissapointed to hear that Sony is Squandering storage space and bandwidth using MPEG-2 only... I am also dissapointed that the sound is only core DD/DTS as well as standard 16/48 khz multichannel... First, it is ridiculous not to use the better codecs MPEG-4 AVC/VC-1 running at an avergage bandwidth of 15 Mbit/sec instead of MPEG-2 running around 22-24. This is simply a waste of space and bandwidth, particularly when you can gain better picture quality with the newer codecs running at higher rates (but less than MPEG-2). Absolutely absurd. Further, why and the F*** would I buy any player that is not HDMI 1.3 compliant at this point??? HD-DVD sucks, but Blu Ray is starting off uneccessarily porrer quality than neccessary. No Doubt SONY, the KING OF MILKING will re-release these same Blu Ray discs in 2-3 years with MPEG-4 and call then SUPERBIT HD or some BULLS*** when they could just use an advanced codec NOW and run the bitrate so high that you would far exceed the equivalent quality of MPEG-2... Then you have the issue of why 16/48 sound? You could at least do 24/48 multichannel in this day and age... AND what kind of output would this be, ANALOG? I'm so sick of this crap... No wonder, even as much of a technology enthusiast as I am, I'm not buying HD-DVD or Blu Ray until they sort out the 1080p NATIVE issue, HDMI 1.3 issue, and have 24/48+ LOSSLESS quality multichannel included.

Good luck but I'm not buying any of this first generation bullcrap. HD-DVD and Blu Ray can go choke on these first generation bullcrap players. Send me an email around November of 2006 or so if there is any new news... I'm in no hurry this time. Go fn choke on this first gen stuff....