For all intents and purposes, 1920x1080 is 2K, if we're talking about resolution alone. 2K DLP projectors in digital cinema theaters use a resolution of 1998x1080 when projecting a movie with an aspect ratio of 1.85:1.

Yeah, audio gets downsampled to 48khz/16bits -- but most HD DVD/Blu-ray soundtracks are 48/16 anyway. So what's the big deal?

Ben, that is a very good question which should be posed to VB. Note that the article does not give a source for that info. There's no telling how the writer of that article came up with it; could be she got info from Fox, or could be she's simply assuming. Regardless, the quote by Fox rep makes no mention of BD+.

"Fox told Video Business that they're not sure if it's BDJ or BD+ that's causing the issues"

Hey, Fox said no such thing! Read the Video Business article in question. Fox is quoted as saying: "We are releasing more and more advanced interactive titles, and consumers should lobby their hardware manufacturers to release firmware upgrades post haste."

BD+ has nothing to do with interactivity. BD-J has. In other words, Fox is blaming BD-J and does not mention BD+ at all.

I thought I was reading Engadget HD, but it seems I've inadvertently entered Blu-ray.com!

Besides... Bay had already lost Transformers 2, way before the Paramount HD DVD deal was made. That kinda puts his earlier temper tantrum in a new light, wouldn't you say? His retraction is basically begging Paramount to let him direct Transformers 2. Too bad Paramount can just as easily hire Brett Ratner or Tim Story, and be guaranteed an equally crap movie.

THX is, and has been for years, a complete joke. It was (and still is) fine when it was restricted to setting a reference quality standard for movie theaters, certainly. But at home... a joke, calculated only to make people pay more for gear. Getting a THX certification for an A/V receiver (for example) costs a lot, which pushes the product's consumer price up. And yet all the certificate does it proves the receiver matches some totally artificial standards set by THX. It's not hard to buy a better, non-THX-certified product, for cheaper. THX lost last remnants of its credibility when it was purchased by Creative Labs (you know, Soundblaster audio cards) and all these new, totally ridiculous THX certificates started popping up. THX Auto (for car audio), THX Ultra, Lite, Ultra 2... You can buy THX-certified PC multimedia speakers that sound like crap, for pete's sake. They are selling a logo which convinces consumers to pay more, that's all.

Spider-Man, eh? In what alternative reality has that been released on Blu-ray, then?

God dammit! It really gets my goat when "journos" don't bother to find out the facts - or are too dim to understand them. AACS HAS NOT BEEN CRACKED, for pete's sake. Cracking the AACS algorithms and being able to create decryption keys mathematically is completely different from finding a decryption key in PC memory during playback. Once the player gets its AACS key revoked, this particular copy protection hole is plugged.