It's not stupid as technology, yes, but I'll be calling it stupid as long as video cards capable of decoding h264 can't decode it as well. It's somewhat counter-productive in my opinion to switch to a new format right when you could state most people (worth their skin), could hardware decode video. Also keeping in mind BDs are based on the 8-bit h264 and only a techno freak would call BDs obsolete at this point.