Also the prices of discs in the HD area have kept me from buying many BD movies. The few I have just look amazing! I don’t know I guess my movie viewing strategy has also changed over the last few years.

I’m so glad BD won, it really is the better technology, being completely re-engineered from the ground up. HD-DVD was a hack/upgrade to DVD.

I think right now there is just too much going on with the transition from HD-DVD to BD, once it calms down things should get better.

I agree with Nathan, the PS3 is a great BD player and is nearly limitless with firmware updates.

The only criticism the PS3 receives is that it lacks a certain audio chip which prevents it from ever being able to decode DTS-HD and I think some other obscure (lossless) codecs and it doesn’t do bitstream output.

I say big deal. I don’t think many people will ever miss or notice this small shortcoming and it’ll always be able to transcode to AC3 or DTS.

As a video game system, the games are getting better for the PS3. If you get an earlier version you’ll have backwards compatibility with PS2 games. If you ever buy a PSP they play VERY nicely together.

Also I’m so excited because coming early June we’ll have the physics sandbox: Little Big Planet, which just looks absolutely amazing!

With as much guff as we get as PS3 owners, I have no regrets purchasing one.

I look forward to the movie prices actually becoming reasonable. Not that I buy many movies anymore.