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

Kevy Baby · 03-31-2008, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by mousepod

When the Oppo blu-ray player comes out later this year, I'm sure I'll get one, too.

Great. You go and post this just as I was thinking about throwing in the towel and getting a PS III.

Chernabog · 03-31-2008, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Great. You go and post this just as I was thinking about throwing in the towel and getting a PS III.

The oppo is still early in development, that article said. If you want one right now, the ps3 is the way to go

It does a great job of upscaling DVDs (we put in a Lord of the Rings DVD to test it out, and it looked like crap on the old player, and really good on the ps3). I'm sure the Oppo is better as far as upscaling is concerned, though I haven't seen them back to back to make any kind of judgment about whether the Oppo is slightly better or significantly better.

As far as the regions are concerned for Blu-ray: The United States and Japan are on the same region (unlike DVD). I can really only think of a few movies that were Europe-only that I wanted

RStar · 04-04-2008, 06:42 AM

I've been holding off for the right time to go HD, particularly this HD DVD Blue-ray buisness. Here's some advice from SmartMoney.com:

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With HD DVD out of the way, buyers of winning format Blu-ray need not worry that they're investing in the next Betamax. But hold off until the 2008 holiday shopping season, and you'll get a machine that's more advanced (the latest 2.0 models are due out this summer) and less pricey (Blu-ray manufacturers lost their common competitor in HD DVD, and so will now begin battling each other).

I didn't know there were other Blue-ray manufacturers other than Sony.

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Kevy Baby · 04-04-2008, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by RStar

I didn't know there were other Blue-ray manufacturers other than Sony.

While Sony developed the technology, there are many manufacturers of Blu-Ray already. And now that there is no question about which format will win, you will see many more competitors on the market. It just takes a while to retool and ramp up manufacturing lines.