I'm currently running XP mode on Windows 7 RTM. It works really nicely! 16-bit games FTW!

Inherently this means that this little device contains a DAC. Depending on the quality of the DAC, this may be worth the price or not.

I'm not worried. People who are blowing up about this 5 different choices thing are overreacting. Most of the five different choices are a quality assurance standard and it'll most likely end up that the vendors that everyone uses will end up stocking one of the types of cable.

I would be a lot happier for the rest of the encoding community to put all of this time, money and energy in doing what RED is 'supposedly' doing. I don't EVER see the need for that many pixels for a cinema application.

Computer/workstation practical applications are another thing all together. But that's not what the MOVING PICTURE Expert Group do.

I'll take the time machine, thanks.

I'm not sure whether to take this comment seriously or not...

If this is released in NZ within the next three months, I'll definitely spring for one of these over a Freeview|HD box.

@Luke

I have had the un-joy of using a supposedly 1.1 spec HDMI cable that would not transmit 1080p without visible noise and artifacts.

There is such a thing as a bad HDMI cable which "meets the specification".

Speak for yourself (your own country, that is.) The BD-35 is still on sale elsewhere in the world. Like here in New Zealand (and by this I mean Panasonic are still selling the units wholesale themselves). And that firmware update site is the global Japanese site. So it's not surprising that the global site has a firmware update for hardware that is still on sale, right?

I for one can't stand the motion interpolation provided by 100Hz or 120Hz (be you in the US or elsewhere). I would be more than happy to save several hundred dollars for a 50/60Hz only set.