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Are you suggesting that other players are not delivering the source data on the disc correctly or are your preferred players doing additional processing?

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1. Or, to follow up on Mark's question, is it because they load faster, have better ergonomics, etc...

1. In terms of chroma detail / resolution, only the new Panasonic's are capable of fully reproducing what is on the disc(s) today.
2. Load times and seeking is important to me. Why should I wait 1 minute for a movie to load when another can do it in 10-seconds? Same for seeking around a disc.
3. SD support. I would prefer to get rid of my RP82SDI with a Blu-ray player so that I only have one source.
4. True source direct output, which includes 480i.
5. The ability to turn off BD-Live to improve load times even further.
6. The ability to force a specific color space to work around problems downstream.

Stacey Spears
Co-Creator, Spears & Munsil High Definition Benchmark, Blu-ray Edition and Lighthouses of the Pacific Northwest.