Maybe someone can clarify for me, but the down side to BLU-RAY, is that it won’t play your old standard DVD movies, and its more expensive than HDDVD.
Not only that, but HDDVD player will play standard DVD’s and bring them up to near HD quality and a HDDVD player is roughly 50% of what a BLU-RAY player cost.
If so, then we should all be pushing the HDDVD format.
The least expensive DVD player that plays HD is actually the Sony Play Station 3 for @ 600 bucks. It’s Blu-Ray
only.
All stand alone players are in the 900 dollar range.
My guess is that the people renting movies are using the kids
PS3 to watch them, like I am.
Don’t worry, all Blu-ray players will play standard DVD’s.
The only advantage hddvd has is price for now, and only for the hardware. The discs are the same.
The thing is, the Blu-ray players have dropped by half in just 1 year in price. hddvd has dropped too, but Blu-ray is always pretty close behind.
All Blu-Ray players will play standard format DVDs.
HDDVD is the inferior format. The disks hold about half the data as a Blu-Ray.
>>Maybe someone can clarify for me, but the down side to BLU-RAY, is that it won’t play your old standard DVD movies, and its more expensive than HDDVD.
Your old DVD player or a $39 one from Wal Mart will do that just fine.
>>Not only that, but HDDVD player will play standard DVD’s and bring them up to near HD quality and a HDDVD player is roughly 50% of what a BLU-RAY player cost.
“Near HD quality” suggests your screen is too small, or your eyes too fuzzy. If I’m wrong, then grab one of those cheap magic HD DVD players to play all your DVDs.