Home audio & video: Poll: If it came down to buying a Blu-ray player, I would:
- 2/6/08 2:18 PM
But wait!!!
by Web Webster - 2/6/08 6:57 PM In reply to: Poll: If it came down to buying a Blu-ray player, I would: by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I wonder if the guy who wrote that article is still holding on to his old black-and-white Admiral, waiting "for them to perfect color."
Keep the PS3
by Eaglecinema78 - 2/6/08 7:02 PM In reply to: Poll: If it came down to buying a Blu-ray player, I would: by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Until the Blu-Ray market changes the PS3 is the best thing going. With it's ability to multi-task as far as what you can with it makes it a great buy right now.
If it came down to buying a Blu-ray player, I would:
by nordicgod55 - 2/6/08 7:04 PM In reply to: Poll: If it came down to buying a Blu-ray player, I would: by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Wait until the prices come down. I would also wait for more of the Blu-ray players to be able to play cd's.
Stand-alone
by raynman55 - 2/6/08 7:19 PM In reply to: Poll: If it came down to buying a Blu-ray player, I would: by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
For starters, I wouldn't go the PS3 route for blu-ray because if someone is playing a game and I want to watch a movie it creates a conflict. I would have to buy a stand-alone but not at these prices. I agree; the prices have nowhere to go but down. I don't like combination units like TV/DVD because if the DVD player breaks, what'cha gonna do? You can't put it in to get it fixed because now you don't have a TV. You can always buy another DVD player to hook up and then you're right back to separate components.
I would buy a playstation.
by ahtoi - 2/6/08 7:33 PM In reply to: Poll: If it came down to buying a Blu-ray player, I would: by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Reason being if HD-dvd win, I can still play games with it.
GET ONE FREE
by KathyW - 2/6/08 7:38 PM In reply to: Poll: If it came down to buying a Blu-ray player, I would: by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Sharp Aquos just had a nice deal on their 1080p HD TVs - Buy one and get a BlueRay free - so I got a nice 52" and a great BR player with 5 free DVDs. Couldn't pass it up as I was in the market for another HD TV.
What are all the Acronyms?.......
by luvthisjob - 2/6/08 7:42 PM In reply to: Poll: If it came down to buying a Blu-ray player, I would: by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My husband and I don't watch TV, ( I know we are weird) but I have always downloaded www.Vongo.com movies to my 17 1/2 inch widescreen laptop, watching OK and sometimes VHS quality movies. After a house fire(on Thanksgivng day), we had to replace our desktop, and got a Gateway GM5664 TV Desktop with a HD2200 Monitor, remote control, wireless keyboard and mouse, TV tuner, and ATI Radeon HD 2400XT, A TerraByte hard drive 3 gigs Ram, and AMD Quad core processor WITH a Canon Pixma MP210 All in one printer for $1479.00 TOTAL including TAX at Best Buy. This thing is pretty Awesome. It plays HD AND Blu-Ray, and burns any kind of disk, and the 22 inch monitor is good enough for me, but they go up to 30 inches(I think).
I changed from Vongo to www.Netflix.com so that I could rent HD or Blu-Ray, and bought a DVI cord for what I thought would be the best quality. The only problem I can see so far is that when I played my first HD disk (START TREK TOS SEASON 1) it only used a small part of the middle of the screen, cutting the viewing size down to about a 15 inch monitor. Regular DVD's play full screen. I don't know if this is the DVI cable, the Cyberlink Ultimate Software or if this is just Star Trek because they had to upscale it from original quality.
I adjusted the screen resolution to make it larger, and it is a little better, but loses a little of the whole reason for watching HD. I have not seen a Blu-ray movie yet, so I don't know if there is a quality difference. I also don't have my good speakers (Bose) because they are in a warehouse with the rest of our stuff until we move back into our house, but I'll tell you what, This computer was/IS a VERY good buy, especially when you consider the cost of an HDTV, and a player. We just got it at the end of November, and if you order it online www.bestbuy.com, and do an in store pick up, they will match the online price or pay about $80.00 shipping). It also included a surge protector, and USB A/B cable, and I opted for $50.00 bucks off, NOT KNOWING the cable was for the HD (the sales guy said the cable was included, but it was a VGA). I am going to be returning the DVI, for the USB 2.0 A/B, and see if it is even better, but I don't know all these acronyms, so if anyone knows,please reply back! I'm hoping it's playing through DVI instead of the A/B "ports" that is causing the smaller picture. It came with Cyberlink Ultimate, which seems to be the best software for playing HD/Blu-ray, and any other kind of video, from all of the reviews. ByTheWay, I bought this because of C-nets reviews on the top 5 best desktops. I couldn't find the exact one they were recommending, but this one was close - as number 2 on the list. I check C-net before buying anything electronic, and have not yet been disappointed. My Canon Mp530 is the best All in One printer I have ever owned, and it was a high C-net recommend. I wish you guys would review MORE STUFF though. A lot of things I look up have no info.
If anyone knows any tweaks for the gateway or monitor, let me know. I am also having a little trouble with Vista - same as my laptop, USB device driver problems, and can't install windows updates for the service pack 1. But I guess that's another thread. :-}
Thanks for your help, Cnet!
Leah
http://www.learn-how-to-pamper-yourself.com/cnet
Just bought the 60gb PS3 WOW!
by amigaice - 2/6/08 9:13 PM In reply to: Poll: If it came down to buying a Blu-ray player, I would: by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Ok I just did this this last weekend. My wife wanted a new LCD Flat screen. So I told her we are going to need a good HD source. I showed her the blu-ray player that where $400. Kids really wanted a Wii but really there is not a lot of games for it. We have a Ton of PS2 games and a few PS1 games. Also just got a PSP. The blockbuster by our house only carries Blu-ray and they also had 2 60gb PS3 left. So I told her we can get that which plays PS1/2/3 games. Blu-ray movies and upconverts DVD all in one. The biggest thing for her was getting everything down to one unit. The PS3 also streams content from your PC and to your PSP. So if you already invested into Sony it's well worth it.
nope not yet
by Evayy - 2/6/08 10:26 PM In reply to: Just bought the 60gb PS3 WOW! by amigaiceStill to high in price and sony doesn't get it, we do not care who signed with blue ray or not , we are still enjoying our vast current collection of dvd's. Blue ray movies themselves are also way to expensive at this point.
If Sony wants us to jump then they should have not dumped the cheaper end 20, 40, 60, gig ps3 . They want us to bite then they have to budge, i see no point at this time to invest in this yet .
PS3 choices
by amigaice - 2/7/08 8:58 AM In reply to: nope not yet by EvayyOne thing I don't like about the ps3 is that there are too many choices.
If you need full backwards compatibility you need a 20 or 60 gig. If you you get the cheap 40gig you can't play ps2 games at all. 80gig is only software emulation and it's more expensive. If you find the 60gig that is your best bet. But they are going fast and worth more then the new systems.
In the words of Warren Zevon
by cconsaul - 2/6/08 10:33 PM In reply to: Poll: If it came down to buying a Blu-ray player, I would: by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I'm Searching for the next best thing. "I appreciate the best, I'm settling for less" - If it's a choice between another proprietary format war with Sony, or shoring up the Microsoft monolith, (although I do have a certain grudging respect for Toshiba) I am simply opting for the next format to come along. I figure it will take three to five years and I'm willing to wait. I've got a wall full of DVDs, a couple of shelves full of Laser disks, and a half shelf full of VHS tapes no one has thought to put out in the next big format yet. I am in no hurry to change formats again. I still have a bunch of 78s and a few Edisons and nobody has thought to put those out on CDs yet. I still haven't heard anybody talk about the media that they leave behind when they go through these growing pains. No one seems concerned about the money we waste when we reinvest in the latest format, and they don't seem terribly concerned about the quality of the reissued stuff. (unless you can get it from Criterion) When they start caring a little bit more about me as a consumer, I might get a little more choked up about their trials and tribulations.
I don't think we will get past the worst of the problem until we get the distribution system under control anyway. When I can buy a two hour movie for less than it costs for a forty minute CD, something is terribly wrong. The artists aren't making any more money, as a matter of fact in most cases they are making less - especially when the music is downloaded digitally. I guess that's why the rich keep getting richer and why we have to go directly to the artists to get decent content without a bunch of filler. Now they want us to buy a bunch of movies all over again so they can put a few more menus in our way, put in twice as many previews, and tweak the copy protection (which only seems to make it harder for legitimate customers to watch the movie, or loads our computers up with brand new rootkits and spyware) all in the name of progress? I don't buy it and I won't buy it. When they come up with a system that will let me go directly to the movie without passing GO, without collecting two hundred commercials, and without reporting my personal information to a money grubbing multinational corporation, I'll be there with my little debit card in hand. Of course by then I will probably be able to pay with a retinal scan or commercial breathilizer!
By the way, they are still trying to convince us that a high definition TV is better than the average computer monitor? All I can say is that Ralph Nader must be slowing down!
Other - HD-DVD/Blu-Ray combo for PC
by TrackStar1682 - 2/6/08 10:41 PM In reply to: In the words of Warren Zevon by cconsaulGreat quality, two formats. No war here, although so far, I prefer HD-DVD!
If you look at the price of standalone combo players, you soon realize you could build a full featured HTPC for the same price and have both formats, full recording capabilities with Media Center, be able to play games, and even use the internet from one box. Combo players right now are a rip. Go HTPC and put em both in!
HD-TV vs Computer Monitor
by darrenforster99 - 2/7/08 12:40 AM In reply to: In the words of Warren Zevon by cconsaul"By the way, they are still trying to convince us that a high definition TV is better than the average computer monitor? All I can say is that Ralph Nader must be slowing down!"
I have never heard such rubbish about HD being better than a computer monitor, a HD 1080 set has a max resolution of 1920x1080, my monitor can go up to a resolution of 2560x1600
My monitor can have 2,022,400 more pixels than the highest HD-TV, although I wonder what the maximum pixels the eye can actually recognise is?
Blu-ray now?
by Hammsailor - 2/6/08 11:11 PM In reply to: Poll: If it came down to buying a Blu-ray player, I would: by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Nevah! I feel just as Lee Coo does. Patience is a virtue. Who needs it now at those prices and technology?
I'm buying the Apple TV 2
by Sarahcatt - 2/6/08 11:33 PM In reply to: Poll: If it came down to buying a Blu-ray player, I would: by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have HD satellite, an upconverting DVD that does a nice job and I'm going to buy the Apple TV when the new software upgrade comes out. The Blu-Ray/HD disk players will need to come down to less than $100 before I would even bother. I just don't need this mess in my life. I also still prefer going to see films in an actual theater and I have a friend who has a gorgeous theater downtown.
All those reasons not the buy a Blu-Ray...I am still looking for one reason to buy one.
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