Same here.

Hopefully this is a trend that continues, and we start seeing $39.99+ MSRP prices disappearing on new titles.

$29.99 MSRP translates into about $19.99 retail I would say.

This post just after Steve's post about his visit to Dolby labs?

ugh...only offered to people in the US
Canadians and the rest of the world get shafted, again.

Steve, I think you have it mixed up. It requires a doubling of receiver power/wattage to attain a 3dB increase in volume.

You make it sound like the logistics of moving to another country (albeit a very culturally similar country) are extremely simple when there are countless things to consider before actually moving, such as: finding a new job that will afford all expenses of living, finding a new place to live, new social networking, etc.

I personally resort to torrents as well, usually when my Bell PVR doesn't record like it was supposed to, or for movies I don't feel like waiting for from Zip.ca or driving out to Blockbuster or Rogers Video to rent.

Yeah, I think Ben's warping through time. Apparently last week was Feb. 11, 2008.

Hahaha Ben, I'm just giving you a hard time.

Yeah, some of those requirements can be met today.
There are a few players with Profile 2.0 and 7.1 analog outs (I think at a MSRP of $399 for both, the Sony BDP-S550 and the Panasonic DMP BD-55 are some good relatively inexpensive [for the feature set] examples, I'm sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong).

The wireless thing I think can be addressed with I think what's called either a wireless bridge or an ethernet bridge (not really sure what it's called :P, basically a device that you connect to the ethernet port of a device and it can connect to your router wirelessly).

And the load times shown for Vantage Point are quite long because it is a BD-Java disc, which always take longer to load (other examples Ratatouille, Transformers, Iron Man, etc.). The PS3 is a friggin monster of a computer, that's why it can load that fast, and I think it'll be a while before standalone BD players can even match the speed of the PS3 so your expectation is a bit unrealistic.

One more thing, is that 30 seconds realistic? Does it include the time needed to open the tray from OFF?

Hopefully this means the Bell 6141 model (which I believe is based on the ViP211) will soon receive this upgrade as well.

sweetness...I wonder how long before this kinda technology hits the streets in Japan, and then North America.

I put the movie into my PS3 at around 1:00PM Eastern time, and it still took almost 5 minutes to download. I can't even imagine how long it must be taking right now, in the evening when everyone wants to watch it after work.

Actually, from reading AVSForum, it seems like some folks are reporting load times of up to an hour, some still to no avail.

Paramount and other Hollywood studios seriously need to look at this example and change the BD-Live content download to trigger only when a user selects BD-Live from the disc menu. Also had this problem with Transformers on Blu-ray.

Note: It seems the file is 12MB in size.