Blu Wiki

[Rup_Muk]

Hi all,

Just a thought:

There are so many things that are new with blu-ray. I'm sure there are plenty of novices that land up here after googling "blu-ray" trying to find out why they should plonk down some big moolah.

There are so many regulars here that know their stuff - and are able to convey all the technical mumbo-jumbo in comprehensible terms.

Combining the two points above, why can we not start our own little WIKI within this site? To incorporate my idea, the mods will have to help in that all registered users should be able to edit individual articles - with full public disclosure of edits made. Vandalism, troll-ism, etc. should be pretty easy to detect. Finally, the WIKI made here could be linked to main articles of blu-ray and HD sections on wikipedia.org.

I envision this WIKI evolving into a blu-ray manual, a glossary of terms, CODECs, an integrated approach to interconnections of HD components, a "recommended" list of hardware (this one I'm not so sure of). These are just starter ideas... I'm sure - with contributions from the mods, gurus, and expert users here - we'll be able to consolidate a list that would be useful to HD/blu novices and more advanced users.

While we can provide rational insight into the advantages of blu-ray, what I wouldn't want to see happen is that these WIKIs become vehicles of FUD against HD-DVD. Then, we'd be just as guilty as some of the shills at AVS.

I write this in the Movies forum - but these WIKIs could apply across every category here.

Would love to hear your opinions about a WIKI - and suggestions about topics.

Rup.