They Knew What They Were Getting Into.

Okay, now that the dust is settling on the Warner/ Blue Ray/ HD-DVD announcement of last week and it seems Blue Ray has won the war, the even bigger announcement is hitting the Internet. Current Blue-ray players may or may not be able to play upcoming Blue-ray movies!

So you just bought that shiny new Blue-ray player now that you know the war is over (well I hope it was a PS3!) but is it profile 1.0? Profile 1.1? Profile 2.0? Because you see they're not upgradable so your kinda stuck.

But fear not soon it seems Blue-ray discs will be easily labeled for you so you know that movies with a "Bonus View" sticker will require Profile 1.1 and movies with a "BD Live" sticker will require Profile 2.0.

WHAT! Are you freaking kidding me! Actually the best response to all of this coming from the Blue-ray Disc Association is that its HD-DVD's fault!!! According to the BDA HD-DVD arrived on the market sooner than Blue-ray was ready for thus forcing Blue-ray into the market unfinished. Of course this must have been why those players were so expensive too right?

But getting back to it early adopters knew what they were getting into so its all good and fine, they all did right? I'm sure everyone who spent upwards of $1,000 on a new Blue-ray player was well aware it was only good for roughly a year or so right?

Well I'm sure there are a few VERY rich people that will be all fine with tossing their old players for new ones but I'm sure there will be more than a few pretty perturbed customers out there. Unless you own a PS3, and lets face it that was Sony's plan all along wasn't it. Maybe that's why there's no really GAMES for the game system.

Call me aggravated, I do own a HD-DVD player and plan to keep it, I don't own a Blue-ray player or PS3 so I'm partial to HD-DVD I guess, but at this point just like I'm more likely to have two 360's and not a PS3 I may just look to add one of the 360 HD-DVD add ons when Amazon starts selling them for $50 before I get a Blue-ray player.

Too bad HD-DVD, you were better for us all, but we'll never know now. Here's to the future of Blue-ray, in all its many configurations!