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Nice set!

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Count me in, too.

Of course, the question needs to be asked: "What, besides the persuasiveness of Sony, attracted the majority of movie studios to gravitate to Blu-ray, rather than HD-DVD?" Three factors that help to answer this question are:

A. More perceived copy-protection capability in the form of BD+: The thing about copy-protection is that it doesn't hamper the real video pirates, evidenced that both the copy-protection systems for HD-DVD and Blu-ray, including BD+ have been successfully hacked, but it causes great inconvenience for average consumers in that some discs become unplayable, or it causes issues with player/HDMI/TV connectivity.

B. Region Coding: Although not as complicated as the current standard DVD region coding system, for fans of worldwide film releases and the tendency for movie studios to enforce different pricing levels, and sometimes different bonus features, for the same movie in different regions, region coding is not the consumer's friend. Check out the details of the Blu-ray Region Code scheme.

C. The Sony Playstation 3 Factor: This move placed Blu-ray capable playback devices in the hands of avid gamers, whether they wanted it or not, which ended up making the PS3 very expensive as a game console, but relatively inexpensive as a Blu-ray disc player.

The result of this strategy is that over a million Blu-ray equipped PS3's were sold in addition to standalone Blu-ray Disc players. Even if only half of of PS3 owners took advantage of Blu-ray playback on their units, the potential customer base for increased Blu-ray disc software sales was there, further attracting movie studio interest. If it wasn't for the Sony PS3, HD-DVD would actually have had a slight edge in players sold over Blu-ray, and a larger potential customer base for disc sales.

Excellent series! Keeping it saved on Tivo, but would LOVE to have it on DVD.

nice

ok

Did you ever really gave these free things, ben?

I am not sure if I am up to 10 posts yet, but I am going to post here anyway

I am in for one.

Why not?

Sure, I'll take it if its free. I'd like the planet earth set more though

I wonder how much I will get for them when I sell them on eBay.

me too!

great series!

hmm....I want these in blue-ray

This is pretty cool. It was also pretty funny though (As a Plantronics dealer myself) to see the NASA-ites chain-smoking into their vintage Plantronics headsets, panicking about the rockets .

me please

count me in!

it better come with free shipping, otherwise i don't want it.