@GrandMasterBirt: Personally, I am not now and never will touch Blu-Ray.  I don't trust Sony to have any qualms about screwing everyone over.  I also think that, before Blu-Ray gets majority market share, downloadable videos will be widely enough accessible to completely replace my media players for 99% of my viewing.  &#60;/rant&#62;<p>This assumes that nothing will come along to challenge or supersede h.264.  If nothing else, we can hope that Theora will get more developers, at which point the whole browser-battle will resume, and the same solution will likely arise: further delay in fees, or switching to a free codec (remember, Theora will have improved in the meantime).