BLUE RAY? - Page 2

They made a player that plays both blu ray and hd dvd:
 
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/detail.do?group=mp3audiovideo&type=blu_ray&subtype=duohdplayer&model_cd=BD-UP5000/XAA
 
I'm selling my blu ray player on e bay and getting this

ya , I saw that today at BestBuy..of course I had to break the news to the wife at dinner that the TV will break and all the plasma will run out if I don't add a bluray/dvd player to it ASAP!!

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ORIGINAL: GorillaH2

They made a player that plays both blu ray and hd dvd:

http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/detail.do?group=mp3audiovideo&type=blu_ray&subtype=duohdplayer&model_cd=BD-UP5000/XAA

I'm selling my blu ray player on e bay and getting this

 
 
LG has had a Combo player for about a year!!

I think BlueRay will ultimately win out over HD DVD. Too many major houses have made the decision for BR. Also note that the rental companies are focused on BR as well.

One cool thing is when you buy and HD player you get 5 free movies. It took me a couple of months to get mine. You can pick your movies from 5 lists. They don't guarantee you'll get the pick, they can sub another flick if they want.

I got mine in and was delighted they didn't substitute BLAZING SADDLES, that is a great movie I can watch over and over and to have it on BR is even sweeter.

Another great flick was Hart's War. Excellent war movie with Bruce Willis. I got Devil's Rejects but for some reason it doesn't play on my PS3. There is a warning on the DVD case that this is the latest in BR and you may need to update your firmware.
Well I have my PS3 hooked up to my wireless network at home and did the latest firmware update and it still doesn't work. Bummer, I really wanted to see that on BR. Maybe Sony will update their PS3 again soon to make it work.

I absolutely love Blade Runner, one of my all time favorites. I have to get it on BR too. I have the original release of Blade Runner and the director's cut which I didn't like as much. I found the narration by Harrison Ford to really work with that movie. I hope the BR version has the narration as in the original

I don't see any reason why most popular films no matter how old can't or won't be updated to HD. It's going to be interesting.

I found StarGate at Fry's on BlueRay and it's another good flick.

Do you know why Sony is pushing BR so much? It's simple and factual.  Sony gets a royalty for every single physical BR DVD that is sold from the other studios, which I believe is between $2 to $3 PER DISC, hence the higher prices of BR Discs compared to HD-DVD discs.  MOST people don't know that.  HD-DVD however is open-source from my understanding, which means there is no royalty'd owed to anybody, hence the cheaper prices of the movie.  THAT's why I'll never own a BR player.  I'm not out to make Sony any richer and pay more money for a BR movie when I can get a HD-DVD that is the exact same picture resolution and quality for cheaper.
 
I don't understand why so many movie studios are switching to BR.  I guess the power of Sony Marketting is what they see.  HD-DVD and BR both have the same resolution on their video, which is 1920x1080.  They both can do native 1080p video compression, but HD-DVD has more capabilities as far as streaming multiple feeds and also has alot more interactive capabilities.
 
It's unfortunate that Sony chooses to spend so much  money shoving BR down people's throats even though HD-DVD is superior overall.
 
As far as picture quality goes, they are both great and you probably won't see a difference between BR and HD.  Even for people that can notice those tiny pixel imperfections like myself and the others, you probably won't see a difference if you have a BR and HD-DVD player hooked up to the same TV playing the same movie. 
 
I'm very Anti-Sony because everything I have ever owned Sony has only lasted a year or two.  They have the best marketting in the world, and their high-end stuff is great, but even though the quality is good, their equipment doesn't last half as long as Samsung, Toshiba, etc. 

YOur  correct  - I have a sony  cyber shot  that  lastest not even 6 months....
 
That better  not  happen to my blue ray player....
hey before  blue ray  and  hdvd    wasn't it  called  superbyte  or  superbit???

Not exactly. 
 
 SuperBit DVD's were from one specific studio, and what they did was strip out all of the extra's like deleted scenes, behind the scenes, etc and ONLY put the movie and audio tracks on the DVD.  This way, they could maximize the data used on an entire dual-layer 9GB DVD to maximize the video and audio quality.  I own a few of them and in the AV Home Theater world, the SuperBit version of "The Fifth Element" has always set the standard as how good of quality a normal DVD can do.
 
If you have a BluRay player from a manufacturer other then Sony, you are probably OK.  Don't get me wrong; I think BluRay is great, as well as HD-DVD, but I hate the fact that Sony just wants their damn royalties and pushes BR to the point you are sick of seeing commercials for it.

you really hate sony, I bought my first plasma from sony and I still own it (about 6 years) without any problems and with their advanced LED technology for the LCD's and Plasmas they want to set the bar for other TV sets......I personally prefer pioneer as a television brand since I buy all my audio equipment from there and the elite has arguably one of the best picture

what do you think  of philips?

I still have a Pioneer Elite dual-sided Laserdisc player at my old house in my basement   I agree.  Pioneer Elite equipment is great, but to those who can actually afford it.

I like Samsung TV's I have a 52" plasma on the wall in the living room ......and a 32 LCD Samsung in the game room, both very good TVs lots of features and look classy on the wall...no problems yet!!.....I read reviews till my eyes fall out when it come to buying electronics... I don't mind spending good money for my toys...just want to make sure I am getting the very best for my money...

Yup.  I prefer Samsung and Pioneer as far as plasma and LCD go, although I have a 42" Vizio for our living room that we really love.  I'm going to be setting up my game room/loft this spring, probably in the next few weeks, but I'm thinking about buying a new 22" Widescreen LCD monitor and using a VGA switcher between my 360 and PC's since the new generation of computer LCD monitors have 2 ms refresh rates and contrast ratios almost equal to plasma's.

A long time ago I heard DLP had the best picture, but when I heard the elite came out I bought it

Does your Elite DLP have the new LED LCD display, or is it one of the older color wheel ones?

just  got  5 th element on blue ray!!!!!
 
wow!!!
did I say wow!!!!

The new Led LCD techonology....and it looks a hell of a lot better than the color wheel ones, brighter and more crisp

That's why I wanted to ask  because I wanted to see how much better LED was vs. color wheel.  I guess it really is nice.  Does it stick out less in the back also, or about the same as the other slim profile DLPs?

It sticks out about the same and the black level is a lot deeper