Fine, BluRay Wins. Any good units that play BR and DVD?

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

But, ugh, I don't want a PS3. I'm not a gamer.


There are no consumer players with bluray two point oh??? That sounds, um, retarded to say the least.

First, congrats on the inheritance of the TV! And yes size queen, how big is it?

Second, the Ps3 is way more than a gaming machine. We use ours every single day -- either for DVD/Bluray watching (it upscales regular DVDs beautifully), we stream audio/video from our computers to watch on the TV via the LAN, it stores movies and music, you can download movie trailers, etc. It's like having another computer hooked up to your TV (the Ps3 has a hard drive, etc.). And yes, if you ever want to try a game, you can do that too. I actually don't own one Ps3 game yet (I've rented some tho).

Mousepod doesn't use his for gaming either. Mebbe he can chime in here with some of the features he uses.

I don't know why 2.0 wasn't just standard to begin with. The Ps3 JUST upgraded like a couple weeks ago to 2.0 capability (not sure if anything beyond 2.0 is in the pipeline) and there are very few discs which have features for this (the first couple were released on the same day the Ps3 upgraded).

If your standalone player doesn't have 2.0 capability, you can still upgrade your firmware like you could with any disc media system -- you download the firmware, burn it onto a disc, and play the disc in the unit.

So the moral is, if you wait a while (like, until the fall), you'll get your standalone 2.0 player, which will probably be just as expensive as the Ps3, which probably won't have any price drops by then.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23833725/ <--- that link has the skinny on all of this confusing stuff.

The OTHER moral is, buy a Ps3 and you're covered.