Who can afford a Blu-Ray player?

[blutach]

@soup -Yeah - that, too. And my cousin, Fred Black and his brother in law Chuck Berry contributed so much, they got the honour of Blackberry (Berryblack didn't quite sound right).

@angel - Actually fired it up last night and popped in an SD Card and to see the pix of my son on the big screen was great.

Regards

[LT. Columbo]

Who can afford a Blu-Ray player?

not me. do i want one? hell no.

Not me. I spent all my $$$ on a new PC and a 42" for the bedroom.

the perfect set-up for at least a half dozen jokes!! i'll resist temptation out of respect for the kiddies here

[BR7]

@LT

[blutach]

Half a dozen jokes, eh? Let's see 42" didivded by half a dozen = 7" per joke, right? Seems fishy.

Regards

[johndoh453]

not me. do i want one? hell no.

you wouldn't want to have a blu-ray player or burner?

[RFBurns]

Hi all!

Blu-Ray DVD will be excellent....that is if one cares about high resolution video and extreme 7.1 or above audio.

However, none of that matters if you do not have a television set capable of these resolutions. It is also useless unless the tv set has the HDMI input. Even RGB component will not yeild the full resoultion offered by Blu-Ray...besides...RGB is analog.

As to the audio, well 7.1 or above sounds nice. The current 5.1 is good enough 4 me. Some of the audio will have frequency responses well above 22khz on the high end, and well below 50 hz on the low end. Unless humans suddenly developed super frequency hearing ranges, most folks wont even be able to hear byond 22khz or below 50hz. But it sure SOUNDS and LOOKS impressive!

Im going to hold off on forking out 1,800 bucks on Blu-Ray until the 2nd or 3rd generation. As with anything electronic or computer based equipment, the first rounds are the ones with the bugs, and worked out and fixed in later revisions, by that time, the price should drop down considerably....that is if the market becomes saturated with the units. Once the market gets saturated, the price will be extremely cheap.

Also by that time, the LCD flat pannel units will also come down in price.

[NightTran]

I have some big movie that I can test it on, dont know if dvdd can burn a big iso file

[LT. Columbo]

you wouldn't want to have a blu-ray player or burner?

not really. don't need one. at least not yet

[Kabuchan]

I don't need one either.

@ blu, I have a 52" tv in my bedroom. The only thing it plays is cartoon network!