Wonder how the Blu Ray group plans on getting support in Vista next year. I still think the smartest thing for both groups AND consumers is to come to some agreement and merge the formats. Furthermore, I stll dont see how this will play out with device manufacturers since Sony would appear to eventually undercut them when the PS3 arrives which can do the same and a lot more of what device manufacturers can offer. I still think AACS will be the death of it.

What are you referring to, Patrick? BD is ALREADY supported in Vista. That was a part of the screaming fit that Bill Gates had towards Sony. He can't just pull what they've already agreed to.
NOTHING will be the death of BD at this stage, unless Sony pulls something really dumb, and that's not likely to happen. Of course...the BMG-driven rootkit thing wasn't the peak of brilliance either.
However, BD is here to stay for a long, long time.

Man - Blue-ray VS HD-DVD, Apple moving to Intel, Intel VIIV, 1080p LCD's dropping in price, low cost HD cameras, Microsoft Vista, video ipod, Sony PSP, Playstation 3, x-box 360...

2006 is looking pretty interesting...

Almost sounds like time for one of those "predictions" threads...

My mistake Spot. What I meant was MS will not be pushing Blue Ray. I saw an article the other day where MS is offering coupons and discounts to vendors who offer HD-DVD over Blue Ray. MS will have an major impact one way or another as much as I dont like it.

CES should be awesome this year. I just want to finally see an H.264 AVC player that will actually come out this year instead of the crap last year touting it.

I am assuming Nero will/should have a major prescence at the show but IMO, should stay home and fix the bug ridden Nero 7 before they do any more touting of their products.

The word I am hearing is that Adobe will announce the long awaited Premiere Pro 2.0 with multicamming and H.264 AVC, After Effetcs 7 (what I have seen thus far rocks hard), and HD-DVD Encore that allows authoring of HD-DVD, Blu Ray, and DVD.

2006 is shaping up to the best year as far as multimedia goes that I can even remember. Sadly though, while we might get the devices we want, the content will surely be slower to market.

Was this this article you read?

MADISON, Wis. — After months of intense wrangling between the competing Blu-ray and HD-DVD groups, the battle lines in the war over a next-generation high-definition DVD format have moved to the doorstep of Microsoft Corp.

wierd coincindence on the dateline.

Yep that was the article.

And Vista will actually ship in what year ?? This decade?

Okay, who's holding their breath?