Hmmmm... While I would certainly prefer to control my content, I haven't really bothered ripping the DVDs I own, so in that sense it doesn't matter to me whether the format is rippable or not. But I do not like the restrictions next-gen DRMs carry, such as demanding HDCP-compliant display devices, so yeah, some control is preferred. And I do use SlySoft's AnyDVD to things like removing the region control, skipping the FBI warnings and possible force-fed trailers on DVDs - same functionality would be nice for HD content as well.
As for the adult films... well, I get mine from the Internets.
Without a doubt it will have some role in the format wars, but possibly lesser than it had with VHS vs Beta; nowadays you have DVD
(and to lesser extent VHS), downloaded pr0n and all that, so people can watch it at home, without using either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. Back when VHS and Beta were the cutting edge you had to go to adult movie theathers to watch pr0n, and going to one was too much of an issue for lots of folks. Not to mention that there are certain... advantages at having pr0n at home.
No, I don't have either yet, and will probably wait couple of years before I get one. Then it would preferably be a dual-format drive for PC, as I prefer to use HTPC for the post processing capabilities. In fact, I don't even have a stand alone DVD player
(although both Xbox and PS2 are of course capable of acting as players, in a pinch). But before that I'd need a new PC that can actually post-process HD content in real time and a new projector that can display it at its native resolution, so I'm not in a rush. Or if you want it worded differently, I don't have few thousand euros/dollars extra cash to buy all that.
Anyways, it would appear that Sony might have
accidentally packaged a Blu-Ray decrypter with their Blu-Ray player. Since Linux can be used to decrypt the content and PS3 can run Linux.
PS. I would like to point out that several people watch pr0n
with their girlfriends.
