Isn’t It About Time You Upgraded To Blu-ray?
Posted By baiyangcity on December 26, 2010
You’re forgiven if you haven’t yet upgraded to Blu-ray. After all, with many cable operators offering robust pay-per-view options, why bother with a Blu-ray player? There is plenty positive to say about owning a Blu-ray, and it is time to take the plunge.
If you own a 1080p HDTV, a Blu-ray player will only bring into sharp and brilliant focus the capabilities of your HDTV. Your traditional DVD contains fewer than 350,000 pixels, but your HDTV contains more than 2 million, so consider all the detail left behind when using a conventional DVD. Movies and TV-on-DVD programs today are packed with eye-popping CGI and brilliant color – owning a Blu-ray will help you experience exactly what your HDTV has to offer.
Affordability used to be a major issue with Blu-ray, and some purchased Playstation 3, because it was the affordable Blu-ray player. Spending over $350 for a player was just out of the question for most consumers. Ever since Blu-ray prevailed in the “format wars,” player prices have fallen precipitously. Blu-ray players with full features are available now for around $200, and the holiday season is a great time to go looking for deals.
Blu-ray players on the market today contained advanced features, with Wi-Fi and audio/video streaming. One example is a Samsung player on the market, with streaming Netflix, Blockbuster Online, Youtube, and Pandora. For those who subscribe to Netlifx or Blockbuster, waiting for a disc is no longer necessary.
It wasn’t too long ago that many of us upgraded our VHS libraries to DVDs, and the investment involved in that change. The knowledge that buying a DVD player means great expense kept people from buying for a long time. You don’t need to upgrade DVD collections with Blu-ray, since Blu-ray players play DVDs perfectly and even benefit from upconversion.
For those looking ahead to the “next big thing,” of course, this is 3-D. Some Blu-ray players on the market today support 3-D Blu-ray discs, including Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony. As always happens, when technology grows more widespread, availability increases. Early adopters will be thrilled that there are already options today.
If you’ve held back from moving to Blu-ray, there is no time like the present to take the plunge. The technology is widespread, and video retailers and mail-order DVD companies offer rentals at an affordable price. So go ahead, take your 1080p HDTV for a spin and upgrade to Blu-ray!
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