Blu-Ray

[Hoser]

Army Of Darkness and Return of the Night of the Living Dead.

[Ah Pook]

Army Of Darkness and Return of the Night of the Living Dead.

You mean Return of the Living Dead? I still a have the soundtrack on vinyl.

[DocMedic]

BluRay 2.0 is just around the corner, and none of the current dedicated BluRay players can convert to 2.0. The only one that will be able to upgrade to 2.0 is the Playstation3 via the Sony's Playstation network. Unless your tv can support 1080P or 1080I theres no reason to get a BluRay player. That being said best movies that I own thats worth blue ray so far are

300
Resdient Evil 3. (looks awsome in BluRay)
Die Hard series
The Last samuri
Tears of the sun.

Basicly any movie that has Huge battles going on, is were bluRay shines. Everything is very detailed. I would adviced againts movies that are none action flicks since not much rendering is needed in those movies, and you can get away with just DVD quality.

[Gman]

Good point. After Toshiba bailed I forgot about the 2.0 transition that left out the 1.x versions already sold.

[robsterclaw]

I wasn't going to buy either one, but Walfart had a very good Toshiba HDDVD player for $99, and it came with 5 dvd's. So I bought it thinking if it fails, (HD) then I'll have a good upconverting dvd player at least. Now you can find some great deals on hd dvd's, and yes it's awesome at upconverting.

I'm holding out for the prices to come down on bluray, or I'll get a PS3.

[Asha'man]

I don't watch enough TV to even care.

[Gman]

Youth is wasted on the young.

[PsychoI3oy]

I use the computer for everything and my 22" 16:10 LCD is just shy of 1080p at 1680x1050 (24" 1900x1200/1080p was $150 more and not worth it to me). I could definitely enjoy blueray on here, but not till the drive price comes down. DVD is fine for me, especially since I'm only a foot and a half away from the screen.

Actually, I'll probably wait till BD-R/RW drives are in the $100-150 range, then get one to back up all everything on one disk.

Like Gman pointed out, though, online stuff is gaining momentum and if Netflix ever gets their player working in Linux (or Wine gets IE and their player working) I might just sign up for the $4.99/mo plan. And of course there's always bittorrent

[Asha'man]

Youth is wasted on the young.

Nah, I'll let you old farts sit around inside and watch television. I'll be having fun and being active outside!