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Blue Ray or HD DVD. About to buy a 42″ 1080p plasma and would like advise on which player to buy?

Mark W wrote:


This will be to watch rented movies. I know it will be sometime before broadcasters will be supporting 1080p but enough studios support one or the other and sometimes both. Aside from getting a dual formatted player, thus negating the need to choose but spending twice the money, is there at this time any strong evidence as to which of the two formats will survive. Will Sony again go down in flames or will they emerge as the one to have ? I have read some forums in Yahoo tech but nothing has been posted recently. I can’t seem to find any good reviews that are within a month or so old. Thanks for any help out there.

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10 Responses to “Blue Ray or HD DVD. About to buy a 42″ 1080p plasma and would like advise on which player to buy?”

  1. A friend has both and says Blue Ray is no better than HD.

  2. It will come down to affordability….

    Sony $1000 Toshiba $500…..

    If Sony doesn’t get it’s ACT together, they will lose the populace….

    And that’s you and me…..

    While they may be in bed with Hollywood, Sony cannot support Blu-Ray alone, and Wait for us to buy their product. They answer to stockholders.

  3. I think you should get the blu-ray because it has more exclusive movies then hd-dvd’s and blockbuster will soon start stocking blu-ray movies in thier stores so thiers another plus and the blu-ray players from sony are $500 not $1000. that other guy needs to read up before he answers questions. You could buy a 20gb PS3 for $400 that plays blu-ray too.

  4. As you can tell from the other answers, there is no consensus yet. Technically they are both fine formats, yet one is likely to be obsolete before long. Being an “early adopter” means paying a premium price and taking the risk that you will soon own an obsolete machine.

    Wait if you can, player prices will only drop, features will improve, and the format picture will be clearer (pun intended) in another year. In the meantime use the money you don’t spend on the player and movies to get some HD pay-per-view. If you don’t have one, get an up-converting DVD player that will provide near-HD signals to your TV from your collection of regular DVDs.

    If you absolutely need one now and money is no object, there is an LG player (BH100 — see below) that plays both. It’s $1000, though. Samsung had also announced an all-format player for this summer, but it has not yet been released.

  5. get bluray because other than the ps3, nothing else can produce a 1080p resolution. the HD channels, believe it or not, are 1080i which is better than 720p but not as good as 1080p. you might not know this but HD DVD players play movies in 1080i. so my suggestion is that you go with Blu ray

  6. If I had the money I would buy the LG player mentioned above.

  7. hddvd all the way . oh and both hddvd and bluray have out put of 1080p. dont support sony. they are very greedy and produce negative karma

  8. get bluray they have way more support by way more movie companys they have 7 out of the 8 major movie companys support and if u are going to rent movies blockbuster only rents out bluray if u want a cheap bluray go to eb games and get a used ps3

  9. Rented movies… blockbuster has chosen blu-ray.

    But you might want to hold out for the Samsung BD-UP5000 duel player.
    (Don’t get the LG duel-player that’s currently out – it can’t support a lot of disc features).

  10. HD is fine but why settle for 2nd best
    it comes down to this
    Blu-Ray has the Moriarty of the movie studios support

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