Best Buy announced it will feature and recommend Blu Ray in its stores, though it will continue to offer HD DVD. For those of you considering Blu Ray, the PS3 is the way to go. I'm not a gamer (the game that came with my PS3 is still in its shrink wrap) but as a standard def DVD upconverter but particularly as a Blu Ray player, the PS3 is tough to beat and is future-proof and easily updated (Sony updates it about every six to eight weeks on its web site.) Except for the 40 gig version, it also plays SACD. In recent updates, it offers double and quadruple oversampling of redbook CDs (if your pre/pro or receiver can handle the input). IMO, this is the most bang for the buck of any CE item I've ever purchased.
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I have a cheap little Toshiba HD-D2 that has given me nothing but pleasure. I've really enjoyed playing HD DVDs from Netflix. You can buy an HD-D3 from Sam's Club for $128. What bums me out is that it will probably be a year or more before Blu-ray players and discs are as reliable and feature-rich as HD DVD, and even then, they won't be $128. So when Netflix stops renting HD DVDs, I'll probably have to wait a year before Blu-ray machines are cheap and reliable enough for me to buy one. |
It appears there is yet another nail... Toshiba gives up on HD DVD. |
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