Should I wait for Profile 2.0 before buying my first player?

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Originally Posted by smurfy

Hi. I'm a new user, this is my first post, and I've been with Blu-Ray since the beginning. I've been waiting until I was sure Blu-Ray had won before I bought a player, but since HD DVD has crashed, burned, and been cut up into many pieces and sold as chicken breast, before being just plain cancelled, I pass this question to you:

Should I wait for Profile 2.0 before I buy my first player?

Since the cheapest Blu-Ray player is still £250 here in the UK, it seems like a bit of a waste of money to buy a Profile 1.1 now and then have 2.0 come out a few months down the line, but then again, will the releases really harness Profile 2.0's abilities?

Is it worth the wait? Or should I just buy now and claim my 6 free titles from Sony before the offer's over?

I would wait but NOT for the reasons you mentionned above (profile 2.0) but for these reasons:

Wait for a player that can decode INTERNALY and EXTERNALY (bitstream) both the Dolby TrueHD AND DTS-HD MA audio codecs.

In April 2008 Panasonic is due to release the BD50 which complies with the above and as a "bonus" is actually Profile 2.0 compliant

http://panasonic.co.jp/pavc/global/blu-ray/dmp-bd50/

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=810