Is Blu-Ray Hype?

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Thanks for the replies, they've all been very helpful. As a tech executive whose hacker skills have long since atrophied, Roggster's comments really hit home. His insight is something that technology companies (I work in the chip industry) still haven't been able to deliver, and I was a little dissapointed to learn that the Home Theater-industry (if that's the right term) had migrated to a problematic out-of-the-box approach as well.

I took the group's advice and set my set to 60hz for videos, and that has made a difference. But I played a standard DVD today, and while the resolution was inferior to BD, my wife preferred its cinema-like feel. So I'll keep tuning, and following the links and advice the you all have provided.

Also, thanks rwojtalewicz for your advice. I'm going to pickup a calibration BD, and your suggestion to google settings for my set, was, like the best ideas, obvious only in hindsight; ex ante i would have never thought of it.

Thanks again.