Sean

You do know that both HD-DVD AND BD use AACS requiring the fee to be paid by producer of both formats.

There is NO other DRM at this point. BD+ hasn't been implemented yet and it's most likely not going to be a requirement. I see this as a selling point for BD to studios. You can have the same level of protection that you get on HD-DVD or step up to BD+.

Right now the drm is the same, it has been for some time. BOTH SIDES ARE EVIL. Stop trying to make it seem like Toshiba is oh so righteous because they used a crappy DRM scheme with no way to improve it. They are still locking you out of your content the exact same as BD.

You have to be a complete loyalist to the MS and Toshiba hype machine to believe otherwise.

The only way to minimize the impact of this is to say"Yet another expensive BD player."

Nice spin.

This is a full featured HD recorder that can store a great amount of full HD content and write full 50gb BD disks from the content. It is also a very high quality BD player while it's at it.

I'm fairly sure that if this played HD-DVD vd BD you wouldn't be saying just an overpriced HD player.

Content fans look stupid when them minimize a really cool product just because it isn't on their side.