So the Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray standalone player was finally released. But how does it perform? Well, if all you care about is image quality, then it's pretty great. HDGuru says:
All images appeared razor sharp and artifact free. Particularly appreciated was the absence of edge enhancement within Enemy Of The State disc. It has been seen on some earlier BD disc releases, and appears as a faint white outline around people and objects. Colors were completely free of noise and fine detail was superb. So what's the downside?
Although the BDP-S1 can play just about all Blu-ray discs, regular DVDs and DVD-RW/Rs, anything other than that meets with a mechanical grunt as it spits out your disc at you.
What the player will not accept are "all types of CDs (CD-ROMSs/CD-R/CD-RW, or the CD layer of hybrid discs etc.; VCDs/Super VCDs; DVD audio discs; Super Audio CDs; DVD-RAMs; HD DVDs" (duh!) "BDs with cartridge; BD-REs/BD-Rs" (rats); "DVD-RWs/DVD-Rs; and DVD-Rs of VR mode" It...

Last week brought word on how to copy Blu-ray movies using your PS3 and some Linux trickery. This week we learn how to copy HD DVD movies using your Xbox 360 and some side equipment. It's actually not all that hard by the looks of it and just requires following a simple how-to.
The premise is this: you need to hook up your Xbox 360's component cables to a fast enough, non-Vista Windows PC that's got a RAID 0 set up. Generally, capturing HD content takes up about 6GB of space per minute, so you'll need plenty of space and fast enough hard drives to capture all that data. (Hence, the RAID 0 configuration.)
That's pretty much all there is to it. Since this is going over component cable, an analog connection, there's no pesky DRM to get in your way. This is pretty great and makes renting HD DVDs all the more rational. Laws, shmaws. – Nicholas Deleon
How to Copy HD-DVDs [Jake Ludington's MediaBlab via Xbox-Scene]

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Sometimes it's hard to draw the line between "fair use" and "just plain ol' dumb," but if being in charge of the playback and storage of your purchased media is of the utmost importance to you -- to the tune of a couple grand -- then Jake Ludington over at MediBlab has a solution for you. His argument in favor such extreme measures is the tried and true "backup" excuse, since, so far, managed copy hasn't made its way into his discs or hardware. Of course, with the amount of money involved in his method, he would probably be better off just paying buying a few extra copies of any disc he might purchase, and storing 'em in a vault someplace. However, if you would like to follow in Jake's fair usin' footsteps, the method is really quite straightforward. Just score yourself an Xbox 360 and HD DVD drive (one of the view HD DVD solutions which will output 1080i or 720p via component), a minimum of 4 eSATA drives in a RAID 0 array (for which you m...

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