Klassy...yes! I'm jealous. Got to have a HDTV at the Villa in La Quinta over the past weekend. Most TV I've watched in ages.

Even if you don't got game. We own a PS3 and we have never played it. Well, we have never played a game on it. We use it for Blu-Ray.

Nope, I am so ANTI-GAME, I will not let a PS3 into the house.


Thanks, tho. I should have prefaced my request with that info, since it's always the first thing suggested.

There is a reason for that, but the customer is always right.....

So what are you looking for:

A basic entry level "just play the damn movie" player

A middle of the road player that lets you access all the extras (ie blue ray live)

An over the top blu ray player that has every feature out there, holds your hand during sad scenes and gives you a bj during hot scenes?

Where do you get a blu-ray player that doesn't make movies look hyper-real and therefore fake? When I see the high end set ups at Best Buy I always think the picture looks awful. For sports, wonderful, for movie I don't know that I would grow to like it.

Saw them playing X3 and it looked like a bad SciFi channel original movie.

The nice thing is that at this point the difference between low end and high end is gee-wizz features, not picture quality. Crutchfield has a few models on sale right now for $250. They all get good reviews for picture quality, what they lack are things like wifi, netflix integration, onboard memory to store digital media, and they tend to be a little slow in terms of processing speed (and all that means is it takes a few extra seconds to get to power up and get to the movie menu and it might be a little laggy when ffwd/rwwding). So if you're not a power media user who wants your blu-ray player to be a media hub, the low end options are perfectly fine. Just read some reviews to see if any particular model performs better or worse on the kinds of movies you tend to watch.

One of the reasons I'm not on board with the Blu-Ray thing yet is that all the movies I like to watch over and over are black and white classics. I'm thinking they're still going to look all scratchy and grainy on a Blu-Ray disc also.
But I would love to see all the Pixar films again on Blu-Ray on a nice HD tv...
I'd get all of the Lord of the Rings movies on Blu-Ray.
:)

Lord of the Rings and Disney/Pixar films are the only thing I buy (or will buy) even though I own the DVD.

FYI GC, old movies on Bluray can be cleaned up super nice. Since the originals are on film, the detail is still there if there is a good copy of the negative, and scratch and grain can be digitally removed. (Some suggestions from the AV Forums: Great Expectations, The Seventh Seal, Night of the Living Dead, The Longest Day are on Bluray. Casablanca was on HD-DVD and not sure if it is on bluray yet). And think of old movies like Sleeping Beauty, which cleaned up amazingly well.

Though I do want to see All About Eve on Bluray. It will make the DVD look like an old kazoo with sparklers.

Too bad iSm about the Ps3. You realize you can watch Netflix, Hulu, stream videos from your computer onto your TV, etc. through it? And that it auto-updates to the latest version of Bluray, including Bluray Live? You never even need to play a game.

There've been some prominent B&W (and old color) restorations done that apparently make the movies look better than they did on the screen back in the day.

That said, one of the big debates I keep seeing is just how much the restoration process should remove grain. Some remove all of it saying that if the filmmaker could have worked in a grainless medium they would have. Others maintain all of it saying that it is part of the artifact. Then there's plenty of in between.

I'm with Alex in that I'm concerned about the picture looking so pristine, it looks fake.

I'm fine with a middle-of-the-road unit, but I sure would like that BJ during pristinely-looking fake porn titles. Price doesn't concern me so much, since having to buy a fairly large size HDTV is part of the overall expense.