I dont think you should be wary of Amir , its the studios I'm scared of . Even SD-DVD was never really properly exploited more than occasionally . Rather than have a single solid soundtrack we ended up with the Dolby/dts/Superbit fiasco and while it was technically possible to provide 3 different cuts of a movie (T2) when desirable , the studios preferred to milk their customers by issuing multiple editions of movies with often only minor changes to extras to differentiate between them . At the launch of the original 'Gladiator' DVD Ridley Scott was completely unaware that he could have included deleted scenes via 'Seamless Branching'

Nothing's changed , 'Transformers' HD-DVD only got DD+ instead of TrueHD because the studio chose to squeeze-eating extras instead not because it would have been technically impossible to do so for reasons of space availability .

Bluray's early reliance on MPEG2 and Uncompressed PCM didn't seem to me to be the best use of their space advantage and lost them a bit of ground with early adopters . This was compounded by only limited support for TrueHD .

Warner's are my favourite studio too . Casablanca , Grand Prix , Robin Hood , Mutiny on the Bounty all look beautiful in HD and show Warner's true understanding of their movie-loving customers respect for heritage . Their neutrality in this silly battle reinforces my respect for them . Maybe the war will be a draw and we can all be happy ? smile

I fear that by the time there's a winner , it may be called 'Download' , and it could make all of this moot .

~M~

Mostly harmless. Comfortably numb.