What is needed is that everyone that hires a H1-B has to report their position and salary (anonymized) back to the government. These statistics will show instead of hiring "the best of world" and paying appropriately, they using the H1-B to hire the cheapest of the world.

Everyone seems to be missing this point.

By using existing red laser discs, they don't need to build new DVD pressing plants.

It's that simple, this option is cheapest for hollywood.

I'm also questioning how cheap the hardware will be to decode MPEG4 at HD resolutions. I'm guessing we are talking maybe a couple order of magnitudes more transistors than a MPEG2 decoder.

Red-laser: Cheap to make discs, Expensive player.
Blu_ray: Expensive discs, cheap(er) player.