Blu Ray Disc Has Great Features
As Bob Dylan says, “The Times, they are a changin.” It was hard to imagine that home movie viewing could get any better once the DVD replaced VHS tapes, but now Sony’s Blu Ray disc player has revolutionized how we experience audio, visual and interactive features encoded onto our new DVD movies. With the Blu Ray disc technology, you can finally enjoy all the benefits of the movie theater at home, provided that you have an HD-TV, Dolby Digital Surround Sound and a comfy seat. The picture is clearer, the sound comes in 7.0, as opposed the regular 5.0, and there are more interactive features, than with a HD-DVD.
Word on the street is that developers are looking for new ways to combine Blu Ray DVD with social networking, allowing users to communicate through their devices’ internet connection. In addition to blogs, they want people to create and trade their own movie trailers with friends, using special software included on the Blu Ray release. Media junkies know that people expect more all-in-one devices these days, so the Blu Ray disc DVDs seem like a logical move. Dell laptops are being configured with a BR DVD recording capability and even cell phones are getting lumped into the gaming/music/movie circus, with ringtones beaming straight from the devices to your cell phone at the click of a button.
The futures bright, the futures Blu Ray and if you want to how off that brand new HDTV you are going to want a Blu Ray disc player. Before you go pick one out though, there is an alternative and that’s to buy a Playstation 3 that comes with a Blu Ray player built in. The Playstation makes full use of its Blu Ray capabilities with stunning graphics within its game play so why not get a new games console to go with the new HDTV?
Are you one of the unfortunate ones who invested in HD DVDs last year? If so, then it might comfort you to know that Best Buy and Circuit City feel at least a little bad for misleading you into thinking HD DVD was “the next best thing.” Who knew that all the major players would side with Blu Ray so early on in the high-definition format bidding war? In March, Best Buy announced that it would mail a $50 gift card to any customers who purchased an HD DVD machine before February 23rd. Following suit, Circuit City offered to accept returns of the discontinued Toshiba HD DVD player, in exchange for a store credit toward the Blu Ray disc gear or whatever else the customer would like to choose from the store.
