--- On Mon, 4/14/08, Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gnorts, Vorts!
Even though Betamax was superior to VHS in many ways, the
economic
advantage of the VHS transport mechanism beat out the
superior quality
of Betamax.
With the announcement by Blockbuster that it would only
stock Blu-ray
HD vids, Toshiba and Microsoft's HD DVD was history.
Indeed, the
price of those DVD's and players have plummeted.
Not so for the Blu-ray players. Buy-in still runs in the
$400 range
with a $378 lowest price seen at Walmart. AND if you
bought-in too
early, you probably need a s/w or firmware upgrade in order
to take
advantage of the latest indexing of Blu-ray media.
This shopper hit the web for advice and found the answer
at, of
course, Sony. You can buy the 40 GByte PS3 with a built-in
superb
Blu-ray capability for $399 and it even includes a WS
Blu-ray version
of Spidey III.
And get this, not only do you get a game for free; but, I
set it up on
my wireless home LAN and it automatically updated the
Blu-ray player
(and game) to the current version.
Oh, and in the words of K, I guess I'll have to
buy the White album
again. My first vid purchase (other than Spidey) was
Sir Clarke's
2001 in WS Blu-ray.
Terry
PS (pun?) In order to use a standard style remote instead
of the game
remote, you have to buy the Bluetooth Sony remote since the
PS3 does
not accept the standard universal remote.
I really hate to see Sony prevail on this. To me Sony just represents
incompatability with everything. I avoid them whenever possible. The
decline in prices for Blu-ray equipment is likely not going to be as rapid as
we have come to expect for electronic stuff. One reason is now Sony has a lock
on the market. The other reason is those 405nm lasers aren't so cheap to make
yet and represent a disproportionate part of the manufacturing cost.
M.
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