If you read around AVS Forums, there’s talk about upcoming BR players which will hit $500.

But Pioneer will also have a $2000 Elite one as well.

Later this year, they will finalize standards for things like BD-Live 1.1, which will give you things like interactivity and PIP with HD video in both pictures.

Players will then have ethernet ports or perhaps wireless connections, although a lot of people are leery about their disc players being able to phone home.

PS3, many people hope, will pick up these new features with firmware updates.

Longer term, there are features like managed copy on the horizon. This would let you rip the movie legally. You may pay extra, to rip it to say a media server or a lower-res version to an iPod or other portable media players.