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well most of the movies arent on combo 1st of all. & secondly they're going to offer non-combo versions alongside the combo versions soon. Unleashed was the first released alongside the end of June. Departed, Letters to Iwo Jima, Kiss kiss bang bang, etc.. all coming out the beginning of Oct on non-combo. all the same price as BR versions on amazon.
a little research will also get you great deals. Fry's has great prices & selection. Best buy has the worst prices but decent selection, CC is usually better than BB by a couple $ but has a slightly smaller selection.
you could even import on some releases on non-combo which were combo in U.S. ezDVD.com.au (w/ exchange rate about $21.50 each)
the lack of region coding also means you can get lots of movies which arent available in the U.S. yet (also means you can get BD exclusive movies in the U.S. on HD DVD a lot of times because of different licensing internationally)
the 4 layer BD discs will be great for PC, but BD's lens setup might make it hard to focus layer ID on SA players because of how close the layers are. either way, 100GB for a movie is beyond overkill. thats a tad under 9 hours, nobody needs to sit on the couch for that long.
oh & btw, the dual layer BDs now arent 50GB. according to insiders there are only 2 BD plants (both Sony's) that are producing even 50% yield because of pooling of the scratch-resistant coating (silicon dioxide resin) at the edges making that area unreadable. to achieve this 50% yield theyve been removing about 8GB of space from the outer edges. other plants (Cinram, Deluxe Digital, Infodisc) have been getting about 10% yields. so, the yields for the 51GB discs would have to be very bad for them to cost more to manufacture.
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