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1.5 stars
"Not ready for primetime!"
Pros: Heavy studio support. Pretty blue lights.
Cons: Poor picture quality compared to HD-DVD. Expensive.
Summary: At double the cost of HD-DVD, you would expect it to have at least the same picture quality, but no, this launch was goofed bigtime. BR titles exhibit heavy mosquito noise and macroblocking. There's a reason that Best Buy won't demo BR next to HD-DVD... people would be snapping up HD-DVD in a heartbeat, and it's well known that Best Buy Corporate is HEAVILY pushing Blu-Ray. So beware of sabotaged HD-DVD demos (720p, inferior displays) intended to bring the HD-DVD PQ down to that of Blu-Ray.
Of course this may all change if Sony ever gets dual-layer BD working and/or starts using VC-1 instead of the antiquated ineffienct MPEG2. But as of right now, Blu-Ray is dead on arrival.
