Re: I made up my mind, NO BLU FOR ME!!!

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Hey Hood what did you pay total for your Blu Ray player?

About $500. It really only cost me about half that though, since I had a bunch of gift cards from my birthday and Christmas last year that I kind of put in a drawer for something like this.

You know guys, It gave me great rejoice in purchasing a BR drive for my PC. I fell I can screw Sony in other ways!!! LOL

One thread was from here Steve, and general information on the net is that the movies will increase in prices.

IB,

I saw the thread after the fact. Thank you. I would like to say that I will never give in and buy into BD, but I know that, in the end, I will. My wife says that I have no resistance to new toys. She's probably right!

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I saw the thread after the fact. Thank you. I would like to say that I will never give in and buy into BD, but I know that, in the end, I will. My wife says that I have no resistance to new toys. She's probably right!

I saw the thread after the fact. Thank you. I would like to say that I will never give in and buy into gasoline, but I know that, in the end, I will. My friends says that I have no resistance to driving. They're probably right!

But Tim, you could buy one of these!


[Post edited by StevePro on Feb 26, 2008]

I went Blu last weekend. I'm still the proud owner of a HD-A30. Bottom line - I love HD content.

I decided to pull the trigger on a 40gb PS3 and buy from SonyStyle.com. They're currently offering $100.00 credit on your first qualifying purchase. Of course you have to open an account with them. But hey, 12 months no interest until the credit shows up on the statement. Pay it off and close the account. Did have to pay tax though.

My reasoning for the PS3 was strictly for it's multimedia & Blu capabilities. Have a Xbox360 & Wii that I'm more than happy to game on. Have yet to hook the PS3 up and have no expectation to see an increase in PQ between it and the HD-A30.

[Post edited by aVs75 on Feb 26, 2008]

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No, not all of them. And that's just another reason why downloads are NOT going to kill Blu-Ray. When the 2.0 players hit the shelves, all the 1.0 and 1.1 players will be a lot cheaper than they are now, and they will still sell because many consumers don't really care about special features anyways.

I think the 1.0 and 1.1 Blu players are going to sell because the average consumer won't know the difference and probably won't understand (or know) that they aren't full compatible with all the special features on the discs. They will sell simply because they are cheaper. I know there are some who don't care about special features, but I'd imagine that many of those people would still be upset that their very expensive BR players could not take full advantage of every feature on their BR movies.

OK, so you think that Average Joe will buy the profile 1.0 blu-ray player, then pop-in Ratatouille without knowing that maybe Ratatouille won't play? Average Joe won't care about updating!

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Average Joe won't care about updating!

Since firmware updating was a necessary thing to do with HD DVD (and still is), I'm not sure what format you're talking about here? Are you insulting my HD DVD player again?