Finally Starting to Break Down...
August 17, 2013 at 11:20 am
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2013 at 11:48 am by Rev. Rye.)
Blu-Ray has been around for seven years and I have steadfastly avoided buying a BR player for all that time, but, BR-exclusive special features be damned, it is only now that I have started to realise that the time is coming that DVD is becoming extinct. I just looked at the Criterion Collection website and saw this:
There were four new titles announced for November 12, and every single one was available only on DVD-BR combo pack. And, apparently, they're giving up on releasing films on DVD and Blu-Ray separately.
So, it looks like the writing's on the wall; DVDs are becoming obsolete, and the time is coming where a Blu-Ray player is becoming more and more necessary.
So, with this in mind, I have to ask recommendations on which player I should get, with three things in mind:
1) I want something inexpensive.
2) The two TVs that I use the most are fairly old (at least 10 years; 15 for the one in my room), CRT televisions (I could never get used to the Commodore 64-level loading it takes just to turn on the television on a flatscreen.) I understand that I won't get the same BR quality picture on those models. But I've heard that there are some BR players that won't work at all with older, non-HDTVs. I want something that will work, because I don't want to replace my televisions.
3) REGION A. I live near Chicago, and, so, stuff only available in another region will be useless to me.
There were four new titles announced for November 12, and every single one was available only on DVD-BR combo pack. And, apparently, they're giving up on releasing films on DVD and Blu-Ray separately.
So, it looks like the writing's on the wall; DVDs are becoming obsolete, and the time is coming where a Blu-Ray player is becoming more and more necessary.
So, with this in mind, I have to ask recommendations on which player I should get, with three things in mind:
1) I want something inexpensive.
2) The two TVs that I use the most are fairly old (at least 10 years; 15 for the one in my room), CRT televisions (I could never get used to the Commodore 64-level loading it takes just to turn on the television on a flatscreen.) I understand that I won't get the same BR quality picture on those models. But I've heard that there are some BR players that won't work at all with older, non-HDTVs. I want something that will work, because I don't want to replace my televisions.
3) REGION A. I live near Chicago, and, so, stuff only available in another region will be useless to me.
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