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Sony: $299 Blu-ray Player In Three Years

http://www.tvpredictions.com/bluprices011707.htm

Looks like it will be a while before Blu-ray becomes a mass market item.

Bob

that's cool...they must have licensed the process then

Big D

sorry to dig up an old thread - but have just hooked up my BR player to new HD tv and it is superb! Takes me back to when I first saw Laserdisc and DVDs - truely superb picture and sound!

Still not sure about how the future will pan out but as both formats have major studios on board and largely the big studios are on both I'm not sure either will go the way of betamax - espcecially as the PS3 has it build in and uses the format for games - BR at least is here to stay I would think!

BamaBrit

I hear nothing but bad things about the LG dual format player, just check out sites like CircuitCity and check out the customer reviews. I cant really tell the difference when im watching in 720P or 1080i so im not sure if i would be able to tell the differnce of a 1080P format. Heres one review of the LG

"LG is deceptive selling this player. It is not a real HD DVD player as claimed - it does not support HDi which is one of the biggest and coolest features of HD DVD that is used virtually everywhere down to the most basic menus most of the interactive features and lots of extras found on highdef discs will be inaccessible with this player. In addition, the player only appears to decode 2ch of audio over HDMI, meaning that you can't use the highest quality digital audio interconnect with this player either.

In other words, its really only an overpriced, mediocre Blu-Ray player with severely crippled unofficial HD DVD playback (LG was forced to remove the official HD DVD logo as the player does not even meet HD DVD spec). Definitely *NOT* worth the pricetag."

CaliforniaBride

Excellent article here on cnet http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6463_7-6462511-1.html

Was enough to put me off for a while.