I think more people know about Blu-Ray than could actualy understand what DVD upscale was supposed to mean.

Case: Id's "Rage". John Carmack already said that their greatest trouble with the 360 version is the storage medium. They will have to go with lesser res megatextures in the 360 version to fit the game in 2 DVDs... and only the licensing costs are keeping them from using the 3 DVDs they need to match the PS3 and PC versions.

I beleive that was revealed to be a BS mis-quote a loooong time ago.

Xbox 360 is a video game machine first and media player second. Why would they need to add a movie player?

No BS, comes from his own lips in this video (about the 2'50" mark if you're really impatient) .

List a source. Every source I'm seeing says 20%.

MS made (like other participants) its video format semi-open, the format has been released by MS and is open (and like in HD-DVD it's just one of the three main formats, with MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, and not the most used, except for downloads from MS services), while its most used encoder is MS property, contents producers pay it exclusive royalties only if they use MS format and license its encoder (although MS will get its little share from BD forfait royalties on HW and SW anyway). But with BD victory MS loses twice: once because MS weight in HD-DVD consortium was much heavier, and again because interactive contents in BD uses a Java variant, while that in HD-DVD used a MS derived system whose only implementation before the format demise was a MS proprietary system using a Win CE variant, so each HW device paid MS a license for it (this is an even heavier hit to MS power than to its finances, as a HD-DVD victory would have strengthened Win CE in the embedded market in a period like this when its position, despite growing as absolte numbers, due to markets growth, is weakening as total share as in the mobile market Win Mobile is losing ground against not only Symbian and Linux like up until a few years ago, but now also against Apple, Android and a reborn Blackberry, while we can't say anithing yet about attempts to revive PalmOS, but should they succeed it would be again another Win Mob competitor).

So why isn't the high-end LCD business booming since the recession started, but instead prices and sales are dropping?

Entertainment is more recession proof than some other industries, but that doesn't mean people buy the latest and greatest. Affordability is a very important concern.

From BD read-only HW MS receives only its share from forfait royalties payed to BD consortium. From discs MS receives exclusive royalties from contents producers if they use MS proprietary encoder to encode contents in VC-1 format. Obviously MS receives royalties for its encoder also if it's used, by HW or SW, in domestic BD writers. VC-1 specifications have been made open by MS, so exclusive royalties are due only if MS proprietary encoder is used (obviously MS is licensing it at reasonable fees, and curing its quality, otherwise nobody would use it).

Well then MS and Sony might as well both 'eat crow' and release some Wiimote clones already.

 Wasn't this fake?