Excellent points, all of them.

Just one note on the storage capacity advantage of BR over HDDVD. It's 50GB versus about 30GB, right? The problem is that hard drive prices are lower than blank HD media prices. For now it just doesn't make sense to get into either format for personal storage. For that I'd be more interested in holographic storage (HVD) or even stacked volumetric storage (SVOD): http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/hitachi-maxell-1tb-svod-optical-disc-cart/

I still think my next storage-related peripheral purchase will be a ReadyNAS with 2TB - then I'll rip my entire DVD collection to that (among other things).

Bruno