Has anyone seen a blu-ray player that plays both DVD formats and VHS too?
Has anyone seen a blu-ray player that plays both DVD formats and VHS too?
Another BS article about the ‘format wars’.
The article insists that the Blu-ray victory is good for consumers, then goes on to state, “...it will take 12 to 18 months for Blu-ray players to become as cheap and full-featured as HD DVD players.”
Wonder what consumers are going to say when they find out Blu-ray only works over HDMI 1.3.
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I’m glad they have decided on single format, but will probably not buy a blue-ray drive till fall.
couple things have to happen first:
Prices of players come down. I saw Sony player at best buy this weekend for $399.00
Prices of blue-ray movies comes down to standard dvd prices.
I heard that a major upgrade is supposed to be coming in the fall for player hardware.
For the first time I saw the Picture in Picture feature. I loved it!
We were watching YouTube and there were new behind the scenes “Making of Hairspray” posts. They were taken from the HD disks.
When they showed black and white films of the making of the song, they ran the actual movie in a small box at the bottom. In this way, you could see the actors putting the scene together at the same time that scene from the movie was playing. It was facinating. Makes me want to buy one when Blu-Ray gets the PIP.
We have every edition of this movie, the Two disk special edition and the Walmart disk, yet this was something we have never seen before. I so want it!!!! If Blu-Ray were to get an internet connection, one of our special features disks sends exclusive pictures when put into a computer. I would love to see these on my plasma!
(and yes, if anyone is wondering, I did fast a day to get a day of Hairspray)
Blu Ray will end up sucking because they’ll be internet-dependent devices that won’t play the movies you buy without phoning-home to verify the Digital Rights.