This movie looks incredible, and the BD will be visually stunning.

I believe the G10 is my TV of choice for this year. 54" is just the right size for my family room, and I'lll take the 42" Panny there to the bedroom. Can't wait to find these in the wild.

I kind of like this and am curious to see how it plays out. There are 16 different pieces of art, which change based on the scenes. If anything, I would think this would reduce chance of burn-in in comparison to the hard delineation line for the 4:3 picture with black bars. If it doesn't look good, or is a distraction, just disable it. Of course, if I had a projector, I wouldn't ever use this feature.

My favorite announcement by far was the new Panasonic 54" size plasma panels. This will fit perfectly above my fireplace to replace my 42" Panny there now. Cannot wait to show these disks on that set.

I'm guessing you work for mytvpal?

The PlayOn media server does a great job streaming Netflix to PS3. Not free though, but so far the company has provided great support and continual updates to it's near finished beta product. Recommended.

Yeah. After looking at that shelf of a few hundred DVDs that I watched once, or in some cases haven't even finished watching, Netflix is the only way to go for me. Only movies I'll be purchasing are repeat viewers.

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/15122-Blu-ray-sales-grow-800-in-next-4-years.html

I always thought NPD Group was about as independent as it gets......

What I don't understand is where you claim that blu-ray has a poor long term strategy. At this point in time, blu-ray sales are tracking on pace, or slightly ahead of Dvd adoption for the same time period. It took six years for Dvd to replace VHS in the market and you didn't need a HDTV to reap the benefits. Stand alone blu-ray players are selling at the same, or lower overall price than Dvd players during the same development timeframe as indicated by this article and a lot of the comments above. New media formats take time, and there have been many that have gone the way of the dust bin, and blu-ray may be the next. Stating that blu-ray will 'never branch beyond the PS3 niche' is your opinion, not a fact.

Will the downturn economy effect adoption of blu-ray? That is yet to be seen. Does it have the potential? Certainly. There are significant contradictory news articles which claim 'home entertainment sales increase during economic strife' vs 'the downturn market will see significant financial losses for the electronics industry'. We can both provide links to either. The point is, no one knows what is going to happen. Is blu-ray a niche product currently? Yes. Will it always be? Who knows? Certainly not you or me. The difference is I never claimed to know, and you do, in every blu-ray related article on this site.

Now I see the light. It's not that you think blu-ray, or hi-def movies on disk are bad, it's that you feel that HD-DVD had the better chance to replace Dvd, since the players were down to $100 at Walmart (and still not selling). It's those awful PS3 gamers who bought 2-3 times the number of disks for blockbuster movies on blu-ray, rather than HD-DVD. I also supported both formats, but can look past the loss of HD-DVD to continue to see movies in their best home theater presentation.