blue ray / hd dvd
 

anyone rocking a blue ray player at home on a nice 1080p screen? I'm getting ready to purchase a nice new tv in the next quarter and am wondering if people are loving the screen now paired with a blue ray player? Or HD DVD... You happy that you have the system now or do you think you should have just maybe stuck with a DVD player and a screen that was 1080i or something?

Cheers,
B

This is a nice toy :D

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/l...-player-1-199/

That is nice but just a touch expensive :) All my TVs are HD but I don't have a blue ray or hd dvd player yet. I think I will probably wait a while longer to see which is the "Betamax" of dvd players before I buy one.

According to one of the panels at the CE event yesterday, the hybrid will be the way to go.. HD and Blueray are digging in.. it might be years before there is a clear winner. Now that the technology is there from LG, there will be cheaper knockoffs coming soon.. maybe by the holiday season actually.

That's true .... I wouldn't buy it at that price |loony|

HD DVD? I’m Not Ready Yet Either

My Up-Converting DVD Player Arrived!

Very nice. But I agree with Jim. I too will wait it out a bit.

Yep it is the wisest decision to wait. It looks like both are very profitable right now, so neither one is going to give an inch for a long time it appears.

Betamax took a while to go away too. It was the most popular format for almost 8 years. And, it was Sony that introduced it. Of course the downfall of Betamax was that they couldn't make a good quality long playing tape.

If history repeats itself, one of the DVD formats will be able to do something that the other can't. And that will be the end of the other. But, that could take a few years. I can't see myself waiting that long. The hybrid is probably the way to go in the next year. As soon as the price drops a bit.

I think the big difference with Betamax was that, unlike DVD disks, there was no way to make the tapes play in players that also played VHS tapes.

I was thinking that they did make a hybrid machine but can't find it anywhere. I seem to remember a vcr with 2 slots...one for betamax and one for vhs. I could be wrong.

I just read that Time Warner is going to make hybrid disks that will hold both formats. That might make it interesting.

Interested in reading your review on the up-convering player. In your review if you could mention what kinda hookups it has. Basically does it plug in through HDMI?


Going to look more into the dual player from LG. |thumb

Cheers,
B

That 2nd one is my review - lol

It's got HDMI & RGB hookups (and S-Video I think) & I was watching a movie 5 minutes after I took it out of the box.

You might want to consider using ps3 as blue-ray player. I will :D

Or if you have an xbox, you can buy a $200 HD DVD player. It looks like the cheapest way to go.

Nice. Sounds like a good way to go for sure.

And to reply to pornhitz.. yea that's what a lot of people have told me as far as the ps3 is concerned. Just saying you pretty much get ps3 along with your blue-ray player. Probably in two-three months going to make the jump and get a new tv. It's time.
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Cheers,
B

I´d say.. go for it! |thumb
I also need a new TV, but I´ll wait.