Moe

I finally caved and bought my first Blu-ray disk ...well, set of disks... they had Star Wars on Blu-ray for reasonably cheap, and since I don't own a DVD copy of it, I picked it up.

This now means I'll be needing a Blu-ray player.  It'd be nice to get something that could handle 3D in the even that I get around to getting a 3D TV in the future.

Is the PS3 still only the really decent Blu-ray player out there that won't be terribly outdated/deprecated, or is your average unit decent enough these days?  I remember all the kerfuffle that happened when Blu-ray was coming out with regards to network compatibility and copy protection - certain cheaper Blu-ray players were not able to receive updates and thus wouldn't play newer disks (or something like that).  Is this still an issue?

I was hoping to get something reasonably priced, and the PS3 is still a bit more than what I'd like to pay.  If it is the only decent machine, I'll wait another few months then pick one up.  I don't really care that it is a gaming machine, but it does seem to be one of the better options out there as a decent Blu-ray player.

It's been a few months since I have been around these parts of the intertubes.  Have I missed much GDNet in the past few months?  Has anyone actually made a Hockey MMO using HTML, or managed to stop goblin genocide?