"We understand that rules are rules, but it's hard to imagine the DVD forum suing the only company to make a standalone player other than Toshiba."
Hard to imagine? It's hard to imagine the DVD forum suing a company for putting out a player that handicaps their movies and makes the competitions look better? Every BH100 owner is going to buy the BD version of any movies that appear on both formats and get the full menu and extras shebang over the HD-DVD version of which the BH100 will play none of that. Gee, why would the DVD forum ever want to prevent that?
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"We understand that rules are rules, but it's hard to imagine the DVD forum suing the only company to make a standalone player other than Toshiba."
Hard to imagine? It's hard to imagine the DVD forum suing a company for putting out a player that handicaps their movies and makes the competitions look better? Every BH100 owner is going to buy the BD version of any movies that appear on both formats and get the full menu and extras shebang over the HD-DVD version of which the BH100 will play none of that. Gee, why would the DVD forum ever want to prevent that?