Originally Posted By: DWallach
There are some other annoying reasons not to buy Blu-ray today. There's something called Blu-Ray Live (Profile 2.0) which requires an Ethernet jack.

Yeah. Lots of people have been complaining about this already. They bought the first gen Blu-Ray players and got told that they're stuck with 1.0 support only since they just don't have the hardware necessary for 1.1 and 2.0.

Originally Posted By: DWallach
Today, only the PS3 has the potential to support this. All the other players don't have it. Conversely, the PS3 doesn't support "bitstream" audio output (see Engadget HD discussion), which means that you can't play discs with DTS-HD audio encoding, since the PS3 isn't smart enough to pipe it through the HDMI jack to your state of the bleeding art receiver.

I'd expect that the PS3 would be eventually upgraded to do this.