1. I believe the first movie with BD+ is "Day after Tomorrow."
2. You want to talk specs? Triple layer 51GB MAYBE-DVD.
3. I believe it's all models certified after October 31 that must meet the final specs, 1.1, whatever you want to call it.
4. Krans, it's not a war against DVD. It's between HD DVD and Blu-ray at this point. The winner, if there is one, will increase in market share over many years. Eventually, the cost to a buyer for a player that does just DVD, and one that does high def and DVD, will become so close as to drive the DVD only players into the closet with 8 track players. The extra cost of producing a high def disc will descend toward zero, eventually reducing their production to a niche. More and more TVs sold will show noticeable PQ improvement with high def. For X% more, J6P can get that. Each year, X decreases and more people shift over. Once you're buying high def, you're not likely to buy a DVD unless you want the title badly and it's not available on high def. Portable and vehicle based players are being discussed now and we'll no doubt see them in a year or so. Between 30% and 35% of U.S. households have HDTVs today.
5. Yes, current non-PiP 1.0 BD players can continue to be sold indefinitely. But as manufacturing costs for better, more capable players decreases, those models will disappear. I suspect retailers will stop offering them first, as returns mount from people that discover the model they bought doesn't show the director's commentary or some such.
6. The PS3 has the hardware to meet 2.0, it only needs a firmware upgrade. Do you really think that won't appear?