I fear 3D will be implemented by force. TPTB know that general interest in 3D is low, so they'll make it compulsory.

Want that V10 Panasonic? Good blacks, 24P, THX, and coming 2010 3D!

Oh you don't want 3D tech? There's the Vizio for you then.

Same thing happened with cell phones. I've never used internet/camera/dictionary, but they come as part of the bargain when I buy a small phone with a long battery life.

Wow. Annoying person asking questions rudely FTW.

Shut up and let the demonstration demonstrate.

I want that chair!


PS. I can't log in to change my password. Little help?...

I can imagine the sense of frustration felt by my American cousins about being artificially limited by The Powers That Be.

How?

Because we non Americans are blighted by the scourge of region codes and higher priced hardware.

It's not enough that the USA has everything else (democracy, freedom of speech), now you want our pathetic overpriced DVR's lol

I always wondered what it would be like to be governed by a socialistic yet overtly religious, poll driven, economically plundering, self absorbed pseudo intellectual policy wonk.

I give you Prime Minister Rudd.

$900 for doing... nothing. Where do I sign up for this gravy train? Keep those printing presses fired up.

It will be on the TV, it will be in the newspaper, it will be on the radio, it will be on the internet.

I guess I could turn into a hermit for a couple of days...

Just put the shoe on the other foot, and think about if you had some random foreign head of state show ponied around like the second coming on every available medium. There is no "out" for this kind of rubbish - this is "history" and you'd better go along and roll around in it OR be a temporary hermit.

Of course a 30 sec bit on the news is warranted, we are a global community. But to have "live" coverage and dedicated lead up shows on nearly every medium is obnoxious.

Hmm, el Presidente Vasquez on the majority of TV stations, newspapers and radio in the USA. Not going to happen anytime soon. And if it did, you'd be whinging too.

Wow. Could you have any more American imperialism shoved down the world's throat.

But it is in HD...

@gargravarr

It will suck even more when those ducks swimming on a lake become pixelated ducks swimming on blocks as each network rams another stream onto an already overcompressed mux.

Akin to NBC with their useless weather stations and PBS with their sub streams.

"New" digital channels (ie repeated standard definition crap) = death of HDTV in Australia

MFM, BD drives at the top end will have a premium just like DVD burners did.

When BD read/write speeds top out, they will undergo a similar price drop at the top end, just like DVD burners did.

A $399 top end BD drive, will now mean the former top end will fall down in price. Just like CPU models do today.

Now as for the burner itself, if it does dual layer at the same speed at single layer, that is amazing.

Load speed is heavily dependent on drive speed. Since the PS3 only has a 2X read BD drive, it's limitation is not the CPU power but the ability to read data off the disc.

So, standalones will get faster than the PS3, and they won't have to have equivalent CPU speed. Tailored SOC and a 6X read drive will see them leap ahead.

As comparison DVD player from 1999 with 2004, so is BD player 2006 with 2011.