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• Obsolete technology
  2008-03-10 02:55:02 winfriedmaus [Reply | View]
  
  Both BluRay and HD-DVD were obsolete technologies before they even hit the market. The time of physical media is over. People will download movies in HD format legally from online services, and nobody actually cares in any interactive features a BluRay disc might have or not have.
  
  This technology comes at least five years too late.
• Obsolete technology
  2008-03-12 00:33:27 jwenting [Reply | View]
  
  in fact most of them will download it illegally...

  But don't rule out physical media. I've been hearing that those are "dead" for a decade now, hasn't happened yet. And for backup it's always a good thing to have them.

  I do however agree on the futility of "interactive" "features". Hardly anyone cares for those. The only ones the vast majority ever use are options to select languages and subtitles, maybe jump to another scene or chapter, and that's it. And those are not what the BluRay Java interface is meant to cover, as they're already covered by the DVD specification of which BluRay is a superset.

  In fact most of those "interactive" "features" I personally find extremely annoying. Annoying enough that if I stumble into an "interactive" TV show I quickly move to another channel.

• Games
  2008-03-12 08:50:08 mthornton [Reply | View]
  
  My youngest son (age 2) loves a game that plays on our DVD player. So while you may not like the interactive capabilities, some people do find a use for them.

• couldn't care less
  2008-03-07 09:22:16 jwenting [Reply | View]
  
  I've no interest in BluRay whatsoever, let alone any "interactive features".