it is
(i actually watched it again just the other night, too)
i just want this to end, so things small houses, like criterion, can start doing their catalog up in hd, with all the acoutremans(sic) that the blu standard has...
hopefully these things will be happening towards the end of the year, when blu players are gonna be cheap for the holiday season, and those will all be 2.0 compliant...
the only reason i am an early adopter is 'cos i went the ps3 route, which i knew was gonna be upgradeable via firmware, and thus, relatively future-proof. the games have been a long-time coming, but this year they will blow up. i am impressed with the fledgling psn - downloadable, cheap, high-quality games have been put up, and they are sweet (i already touted the bowling). i dont do the rock band/guitar hero thing, but there are updates/new tunes for that thing each week. it is all set-up for the download of full-length movies, if that ever becomes a reality, and since i have watched plenty of the 1080p trailers from the psn, i would have no problems downloading a full-length feature for viewing, provided the price was right, 'cos the quality is all there. the machine also replaces the squeezebox as a music streamer, and can play my stones sacds, and outputs them via analog!! the thing that has been the best surprise is that the firmware updates have been focusing on movie playback: the blu-ray updates (though that isnt just sony's gig), sd dvd upscaling, 24hz support, full rgb, super white hdmi, etc. - all of these things added by sony to make the unit a dream mulitmedia unit to have.
just watch out when buying them, 'cos not all of them have the same features. they all will play blu-ray, and connect via hdmi and output 1080p, and games ,a nd music, but some wont have memory card slots (just usb), and some wont have wi-fi, some wont play ps2 titles.