ahhh nice to see theres a thread started... I posted a few reactions to the news already. this looks *really* promising. It sailed through my matrix dvd which has nasty protected ifo's (shrink clone etc WILL NOT open this movie) and shrunk it from 8GB to 1.94GB at default qual setting. For all those who know the score and use XBOX media player to stream files from the PC's HDD to home cinema I think pretty soon the XBMC crew will be taking the filter .AX files and importing into XBMC but not sure if the cpu will be fast enough to decode the streams. That WOULD be the ideal playback solution (for me anyway)... gotta wait to go to work and see how the quality is after recoding back to DVD. Regards Nugget