Have A Blue Ray Player Yet

[pk500]

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Went to Best Buy and I saw a spectacular looking picture of a recent cartoon movie (might have been the Chicken Little movie-a real "chick flick" LOL) which was playing on a $999 Blue Ray DVD Player. I might hold off on one right now because I don't have HDMI outputs on my HDTV and I'm not sure if my component cables can maximize the capabilities of this product. Does anyone have one yet?

Can you say Betamax?

Take care,
PK

[SonicMage]

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Can you say Betamax?

Take care,
PK

You mean VHS vs. Beta? Eventually, one or the other will be the standard.

[ExtremeGamer]

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You mean VHS vs. Beta? Eventually, one or the other will be the standard.

Yeah, it's called normal, plain ol' DVD.

[RubenDouglas]

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anyone remember those record sized CDs or DVDs. i only saw those at school a few times.

what were those called

[ExtremeGamer]

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anyone remember those record sized CDs or DVDs. i only saw those at school a few times.

what were those called

Laserdiscs?

[Victor99]

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A grand?! Total waste of money IMO. The 360 HD-DVD player is only supposed to be a couple hundred when it comes out.

[ThaGenecyst]

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not in the forseeable future... same with HD-DVD

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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No time soon for me. DVDs look quite good already on my HDTV as is.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Haha. Laserdiscs are awesome.

[CaptainZombie]

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If I had the money, my choice would be HD-DVD over Blu-Ray. At this point I still don't see the need for the HD era of DVD. With the new upconversion DVD players to near HD quality, it kills some sales for HD-DVD or BR.

[pk500]

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You mean VHS vs. Beta? Eventually, one or the other will be the standard.

No, I mean Blu-Ray is the next Betamax. DVD is the industry standard and will remain that way.

Take care,
PK

[SPTO]

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I have a question: seeing as how most of America and by extension Canada doesn't have many customers with HD TV do HD-DVD players only work on HD TV?

I know silly question but was wondering.

[ExtremeGamer]

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I have a question: seeing as how most of America and by extension Canada doesn't have many customers with HD TV do HD-DVD players only work on HD TV?

I know silly question but was wondering.

They will work on any TV, only benefit you'll get is the extra space, which neither "brand" is using right now anyway.

[SPTO]

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Hm ic...sounds like a big cash grab to me.

Personally I think technology is moving too fast for the marketplace anyways.

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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Hm ic...sounds like a big cash grab to me.

Personally I think technology is moving too fast for the marketplace anyways.

co-sign.

I'd say most people aren't gonna abandon their huge DVD collections to jump on board either of the HD players anytime soon.