Blu-Ray sales impacting DVD sales: Where as during the height of the format war, HD sales accounted for about 2% to 3% (even the best selling Transformers on HD DVD accounted for only 4%).
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Give me monthly figures and not what happens to be taking place in a given week (or two).
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Yes- We play very few Blu-ray and the unit has had no issues with either commercial DVD's or most I have burned in the past. It does not play DVD ROM's (which kind of stinks because I'd burned a lot of older TV series to this format) It also will not play most +R recorded media (sometime yes, usually no) so check what media you burned to.
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Robert Smith's answer is a very good one. Unfortunately you generally can't figure out how much you can put on a DVD until you try it. Sure wish you luck.
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Actually, LG has a hybrid player that plays both HD-DVD and BLU-RAY for $ 1,000.00. It is now available to pre-order.Hope this was helpful.
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Yep, that's exactly how the picture looked during the first 2 years of DVD sales. Stores had a single rack devoted to them while VHS still took up the majority of the space. That's how it happens - slowly, progressively. Music downloads have been around for about 7 or 8 years now, and yesterday I saw people buying CDs at Best Buy. You can speculate all you want about what will happen with physical media, the reality is that physical media still exists and there isn't a single retail store that you can point to as evidence that it is being phased out anytime soon.
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PC Blu Ray drives are generally backwards compatible with DVD. They can play DVD's.
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HD DVD is dead (murdered , snuffed before its time) . Unfortunately BluRaY still isnt up to fill the gap. 1299 $ for the first fully functional Sony BD standalone player? Even the PS3 is still missing the update to 2.0 profile.It seems that BLuRAY is taking a break for a year to get where HD DVD already is (was)
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Posted by the scurviest (is that even a word?) Blu zombie of them all. Can you say "propaganda"?Blu-ray won, why do you feel the need to continue posting pro-BR crap in an attempt to curtail A-3 sales?
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Yes, you can. Process may not be simple though. Look here: http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Convert_Your_HD_DVDs_to_Blu-Ray http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=155834
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Backed up/ dvd copies cannot be upconverted because of the lower bit rate. The signal may be 1080p but it will still be the same 480p image. DVD copies may look even worse in 1080p on occasion, prone to video noise and such.
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And in addition to Paulos comment If you are thinking about buying another player then look somewhere else as even though this will up convert standard dvd to near hd, the hd dvd's are not produced any more and only a handful of titles are available in places like ebay. It is better than a standard dvd player but with so much blue ray readily available I would go with a blue ray player that will also play your standard dvd library.
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Yes, Blu-Rays can be used for any data that can be stored on a CD or DVD.I didn't see the rest of the question until I answered. You DO need a Blu-Ray burner. They have become very affordable in the last coupla years.
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I don't understand your comment. I have a Samsung Blu ray 4k upscale DVD player and it has performed very well. I number of blu rays DVD's look better than on a normal HD tv especially the 4k mastered ones that I have are excellent. I think the blu rays DVD's upscaled to near 4k rival the best movie theaters I have been to. With regular DVD's, there appears to be some upscaling but you tend to not get the color brilliance and definition that you get with blu rays.
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Yes, it does play both. Blu-ray, obviously, in HD. And has a nifty upconvert feature for DVDs which is almost HD quality to the DVD.
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Those are valid reasons indeed but just recently I read an article over just the fact that they're not selling as well as expected after beating out HD-DVD. Yes economic slow down is a big reason stated why but here are other reasons contributing to this. As you well know Blu-Ray was pushed through Sony with its PS3 and HD-DVD through the Xbox 360. With the death of HD-DVD, Microsoft wanted to find an alternative to deliver HD content. Xbox Live will be streaming HD content (movie) for free for those who have a subscription with Netflix. This partnership was a good move by Microsoft seeing as how Netflix has chipped away a large number of customers from video rental places such as Block Buster. For me personally that is HUGE. I've already own a Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-ray Player but having the ease of Xbox live stream my movies in HD whenever I want without having to change discs is a plus. This comes to the articles point that Blu-Ray is facing competition VHS, CD and DVD never faced before. Finally having to constantly update firmware to be able to have playable movies may be a turn off to the casual movie watcher. My parents, grandparents love the idea of popping in a DVD and watching right away without having the hassle of "download the latest firmware to be able to watch this movie." Overall they might just be making room for the latest models. I also heard on my local news that manufacturers are trying to bring the regular holiday specials earlier knowing that everyone is tightening their budgets for the Christmas shopping. There are too many contributing reasons to the sudden drop in price but it's still a "wait and see" game consumers are playing with Blu-Ray.
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Jeff, on the week of 12/16/07 Bestbuy had this HD advantage promotion program. This unit was on sale for $2000. Here are the promotion: $300 off if you signed up with 2 years contract with DirecTV$100 rebate gift certificate with NFLshop.comI took the above$100 off if you buy a blue ray player $100 off if you buy a $500 stere speaker system Maybe the unit looked bad on the old firmware. I have talked to many people who has plasma for years; they all said this TV's picture quality is amazing. They all recommend to jump in if you can get it under $2000. Jeff, on the week of 12/16/07 Bestbuy had this HD advantage promotion program. This unit was on sale for $2000. Here are the promotion: $300 off if you signed up with 2 years contract with DirecTV$100 rebate gift certificate with NFLshop.comI took the above$100 off if you buy a blue ray player $100 off if you buy a $500 stere speaker system Maybe the unit looked bad on the old firmware. I have talked to many people who has plasma for years; they all said this TV's picture quality is amazing. They all recommend to jump in if you can get it under $2000.
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Hello. I have not had any problems with the DVD's or Blu-Rays I have bought. It has worked flawlessly every time. Perhaps it is possible to have trouble with homemade discs, but I have not tried any of mine in the player.