@lee7n
If you buy the extended edition, you already have the theatrical version. All it takes is one menu click. Seamless branching isn't rocket science. There's no purpose in selling both versions, except to try to get people to pay twice.

It's a sad gimmick. But it's sadder to see it defended. Why would you want to pay $99 for an incomplete product? Even if you NEVER wanted to watch the extended edition straight through, you'd be okay without having access to the extended scenes at all, even though it means no discount on the price?

@mukhi
1. All Windows software DOES work in Boot Camp. You're just booting into Windows.
2. Done. DP->HDMI is an easy $10 dongle from Monoprice.
3. For? You can put one in yourself (assuming you can find a 9.5mm drive) if you need it for data capacity. You can also add an external one. There's no software player for movies, and really no need for one on such a small screen with such limited sound. BD on PC laptops is not selling well, so why bother with the mandatory encryption and OS-level DRM required?
4. As sales volume shows, it's priced at what the market will bear. Quite successfully.

@identity
Other than the fact that it's easy enough to read as-is, did you ever think about putting it on a table and turning it around? Or just holding it perpendicular to the ground?

@Vic
Of course it does, just like your computer's USB port would.

@DeFlanko
You can use standard "childproof" plastic inserts. Unless you're talking about the USB ports, in which case, why? Go stick your finger (or a paperclip) in your computer's USB port and wait for something to happen.

@Michael Pollard
There's no rocket science involved. Label faces up, just like any other disc.

WTF are you talking about?

The chart doesn't show scaling on a display, it shows relative number of pixels using a constant pixel size. What "most people" do with "video size" is irrelevant.

Do you have a better way to represent that information in a single graphic?

Lasik won't help. Even a 4K display, in order to see all the pixels, would have to be more than eight feet *tall* at a viewing distance of 6-8 feet (nearly 20 feet diagonal). Even if you have cathedral ceilings to solve the first problem, you'd be too close to see the whole image comfortably. Anything short of a cinema is a room too short to sit far enough away to see the entire screen and still be able to track the whole thing (i.e. less than 60 degrees FOV), while benefiting from the full resolution.

This will never be a practical technology for the home, except on 40" or larger computer monitors, which push the limits of a 2 foot viewing distance. A 10-foot, 2K display could easily double for a computer monitor and a television in that case.

This is what DisplayPort was for...

@Eating Pie,
"Because YOU can't see doesn't mean 'it can't be seen.' You are sitting at a good distance from your 50."

Nope--can't be done. 50" at 12 feet would require 20/15 vision in both eyes to see a difference based on number of pixels.

You may see a difference in the content, but it's not because of resolution--in fact you're just as likely to get worse results out of 1080i compared to 720p since the bandwidth is almost identical and most deinterlacers (particularly in projectors) aren't that great. There's quite a difference between 50" and 73" in screen size in either case, so your comment is completely unfounded.

A 50" 1080p television showing 1080p content has to be within 10 feet for the human eye to fully resolve all the pixels. A 73" screen can be 14 feet away with the same result.