Actually, just like AVCHD was just a couple years ago, with the PS3 the only thing out there that could play that 'type' of disk (with h/x264 encoding), the newest 'batch' of players (jvc, lg, and a couple of others just coming out right now) can play BD, AVCHD, x264/mkv, and in the case of I belive the LG, whatever wacky HD divx format there is.
So, that's the latest wave, and the early adopters of BD players are simply going to be left behind (or left wanting to upgrade).
Again, the 'problem' with streaming vrs. low-cost removables (dvd5/9) is the (high) probability of loss due to drive failure. My 'small' RAID array has been attempting a rebuild for just about one full week now, and I'm about to give up (I had about 1/3rd of the array backed up on other drives, though, so it's not a 'complete' loss, although I'm sure one or more of the drives is toast).
So even for a 'short term' solution, filing up a bunch of drives with stuff is,,, VERY short term. I have 4.5TB of drive space crammed fill of just stuff I've leeched off the newsgroups, not even counting the 2TB of stuff on that hosed raid array.
But I'm ramping up to go into some full-scale production of mkv's just as soon as I get all the h/w and s/w together, just like I did with standard DVD's almost 10 years ago.
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