Blu-Ray kinda sucks so far...

[XGamer0611]

ssj12 said:

coasterlove said:

I don't mean that 100% and I do think it is the future of home entertainment as the picture quality is great along with HDTV. What bothers me is that I'm trying to find a Blu-Ray player and don't feel like paying a lot of money for it. It seems to just get a decent working player, you need to spend well over $300. At that price, I might as well spend a little more and buy a PS3 which at $400, I'm not very interested in since I just bought an Xbox 360.

I've been reading up a little bit on the players on various sites and some reviews. The problem I'm seeing is that some of the cheaper players ($200-299) don't neccessarily play all the discs and seem to need constant updating. I don't want to bother with that. I just want to buy a player and some movies and enjoy them. I don't want to have to hook them up online and then look for firmware updates...if they even exsist yet depending on the brand of player you buy. It already makes me miss the days of DVD where you can go out and buy a player and be reasonably assured it would play virtually any DVD unless it was some really cheap player or just defective.

Something else I think is dumb is that Blu-Ray is supposed to be so state of the art but if I'm not mistaken, some models don't even support DTS decoding or other of the top notch sound support. Some reviews mention that many players don't support newer features like BD or dick extras? Also, I'm reading what's included in the box and it seems that often times, an HDMI cord isn't included? Maybe I'm wrong there and misread it. If I did read it right, that's silly, what's the point of a Blu-Ray player and 1080p if it doesn't even come with the cable to best support the player? The cords aren't cheap so that's more money you have to spend along with the fact you can't best enjoy your new player right out of the box.

Now I'm not a technophile so I won't be surprised if I'm wrong on some of the info. If so, help me out to better understand all this. I also wouldn't mind hearing some opinions and reviews for the best Blu-Ray players out there for a reasonable price.

 

1. The PS3 is still one of the best players. It isnt the best anymore but its up there. If you get the PS3 you at elast get access to a ton of games that are only available or sometimes runs better on the console.

2. Its because of the different software profiles. Look at it this way, all current HDMI tech is useless compared to the upcoming specs since the new spec will be able to send data back and forth between connected units unlike current cables. At this moment this improvement is useless but in the future the ability to have internet through HDMI will be a benefit but it is still unneeded. Tech is always evolving, this is also why ethernet cables are up to spec 6.

If DTS encoding is so important to you will have to find a true BR Spec 2.0 player as even the PS3 cant decode DTS.

Not true the PS3 decodes DTS just not DTS-HD.