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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John Ashby @ Dec 27th 2008 12:28PM
I have a shortage of digital ports on my TV and AV receiver, and I love my current HD-DVD collection. I'll be waiting for an under-$200 single player to do Blu and HD-DVD, or else I'll skip Blu if it doesn't show.
GhostDoggy @ Dec 27th 2008 1:13PM
John (Ashby): Wife and I bought a Sony BPD-BX1 player from Costco for $187.80 the Saturday after Black Friday. Costco Online is selling a Philips for $199. You can get 4x1 HDMI switches for under $40.
I bought six James Bond Blu-ray movies for ~$8/each through Amazon a week after Black Friday, too.
MI @ Dec 27th 2008 2:15PM
Don't take this the wrong way, but I don't think waiting for someone to manufacturer a blu-ray player that also supports a dead format that they'd have to pay extra to support, at a price less than the current average blu-ray price, is a reasonable plan. If you want to 'skip blu-ray', that is to say continue to buy DVD for the next ten years, that's cool, but I don't think it's reasonable to make out like Blu-ray is lacking something now because they don't play HDVDs.
shawnmos @ Dec 27th 2008 2:32PM
Both Samsung and LG had combo players. I bought a refurbished Samsung BD-UP5000 Combo player and it is great. It's decodes TrueHD, has 7.1 analog outs, and has a reon video processor.
They are no longer selling any of them though. So if you want one you better try and find one now because they have been out of production for a while and Samsung doesn't even have replacement parts for them. People that have sent theirs in for warranty work have been told they can either have them replaced with a newer Blu-ray-only model or receive a refund.
DrXym @ Dec 27th 2008 4:57PM
The chances of another HD DVD / BD hybrid player are about zero. Some PC BD drives play HD DVD (mine does) so that is probably the only route left to you and probably that won't last long either. Best to strip the HD DVD movies off their disks if you can and watch them from a PC, or stick them in an MP4 / MKV container for playback elsewhere.
Spiza @ Dec 27th 2008 5:40PM
When toshiba inevitably jumps into the fray, they may make a hybrid player.
Truth Teller 3 @ Dec 27th 2008 10:03PM
The truth is that Blu-ray is a dead format now too.
Oh sure, it'll hang on in the minority niche for a while but we all know it's days are as numbered as DVDs are - but probably much more so.
I jumped into Blu-ray myself this year - but then I accept it's a minority niche , and likely to be short-lived, format and always have done so.
Those who delude themselves that it ever stood a hope of 'being the next DVD' have just been kidding themselves.
We can see quite clearly now it is never going to be 'the next DVD' and we can already see the next format on the way (digital downloading).
The Samsung guy was probably more honest than most when he reckoned Blu-ray has about 5yrs left.
High margin niche for the 'philes' who want the current best quality available (although some transfers continue to disappoint).
Blu-ray could have had a decent run as a PC storage media but even there they ruined it with their ridiculous greed.
Now it's too late as HDDs and flash drives come in at ever lower prices.
keithgregoire @ Dec 28th 2008 2:11AM
I did go Blu in late 2008, but I've stopped buying discs because of the economy and the high price of the media. I may buy a few more of my most desired movies in 2009.
I'm happy with my large HD DVD collection and upconverting my 1800 DVDs for now.
Truth Teller 3 @ Dec 28th 2008 12:32PM
LMAO
Oh dear, the Blu-ray fanboys don't like being told the truth, do they?
It stick in their throats and chokes them that Blu-ray is a short-lived niche product as dead as any other short-lived brief media.
Everyone but everyone can see the next means of delivery (save for the laughable fanboys in denial).
Digital delivery.
It's not a matter of if but when.
(and with Govs all over the world beginning major capital public spending programs to off-set the coming slump/recession, projects in the l;ong-term national interest are top of the list = internet infrastructure.)
BTW for all this talk about Blu-ray success in Japan, did you know there are more VHS video players out there than Blu-ray players, still?
Even Blu-ray.com put it like this - Blu-ray Adoption Less than VHS in Japan
Suck it up fanboys.
THizzle7XU @ Dec 28th 2008 10:16PM
You're a friggin joke.
Truth Teller @ Dec 29th 2008 9:21AM
Oh boo hoo hoo someone wasn't nice about my beloved Blu-ray.
LMAO