Which High Def. DVD Player to Buy?
7 Comments Published by Jason February 11th, 2008 in Gadgets. Share ThisSounds like Netflix has finally picked a side…it’s Blu-ray.
Netflix Inc., the online movie rental company, said Monday it is switching exclusively to the Blu-ray format for high-definition DVDs, following four major movie studios in selecting the Sony technology over one pushed by Toshiba Corp.
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Hands down it’s the PS3 at the moment. Good player. And as a bonus, it plays games!
I haven’t tried other Blu-ray players, but my PS3 upscales regular DVDs really well.
I just wish the Bluetooth Sony PS3 DVD player remote control had an on/off button.
It does.. it’s the PS button. Yes it takes more than one button click, but it’s possible.
So — if I want HD DVD I should get a PS3? I don’t know if there is a single game I want on the PS3 that i can’t get for the Wii or X360.
Jason – how about LittleBigPlanet?
Nixil – I will have to check that out. But it will it turn the PS3 on? Or just off?
@Jason
I’m in a similar boat. I have a 360 and a Wii..I even went for the 360’s HD DVD player so i’m having a hard time justifying a PS3 purchase. The only game for the PS3 that I can’t get on the 360 is Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and quite frankly I’m not buying the system just for that.
Plus I’ve got an Apple TV so I’ll just rent HD movies from there and not worry about Blu-ray for the time being.
Blu-ray has certainly won the format war. I bought the Panasonic DMP-BD30K (approx $450) which works great and is a generation past the others (profile 1.1 for the picture-in-picture function).
Don’t bother with the HD-DVD format, the players and discs are now all on closeout and will soon be extinct.
Also cancelled my Blockbuster membership as they could not ship me a single blu-ray disc in a whole month. Netflix probably has a better supply.