Anyone else take the plunge yet? I bought a PS 3 as a Blu Ray player because it is far cheaper than any of the other stand alones, and the picture is absolutely fantastic, worth every penny for movies alone. Our projector is only 1080i via HDMI, so were not getting the full 1080p the disks are capable of yet, but even still the detail is awsome. I can't wait for the format war to be settled so I can buy more DVD's without worrying about them suffering the same fate as Laserdisk. Either way, I'm a big fan of the high def format.

 

I myself havn't bought into the formats but am looking to maybe buy a Blu-ray, I am currently wating to see what happens by the end of this year or until a hybird player is released..

 

Waiting till it settles down. I did look at it and it does look awesome. I just couldn't justify a pricetag of a grand for the player, plus all this bs war of formats.
For now I'll be happy with regular dvds.

 

how many movies are out on blu-ray?

 

Dudes seriously im laughing my *** off.
Type in "how many movies on blue ray?" in google.
Shiiiettt..

 

They do have a hybrid player coming out, but it is going to retail at like, $1200.00 US.

According to blu-ray's official site there are currently 1,139 blu-ray movies available. blu-ray also has the exclusive support of these studios

Disney (Buena Vista)
Fox
Lionsgate
MGM
Sony Pictures

Which means that you cannot get any movies done by those studios on HD-DVD. The only thing HD-DVD has keeping their format afloat is Universal's exclusiveness. If Universal ever decides to support blu-ray, HD-DVD will likely go belly up.

I haven't really liked SONY as of recently, but the bottom line is, blu-ray discs hold double what HD-DVD discs can hold. Which in the end means better picture quality, better audio and more room for special features. So if I had to pick on now I'd go blu-ray. Even though SONY pisses me off to no end sometimes.

 

I have my moments.

 

Plus, they can make BluRay with higher capacity and HD-DVD is pretty much maxed out.

 

Well, they've recently developed, I believe it was a 9 layer HD-DVD disc, which would come in at around 90GB of storage. But, they can do that much space with like, a triple layer blu-ray disc. Which will be much easier and be far cheaper. Of course these technologies are a long ways off from being used on movies and what have you.

 

And I don't think that the players would be backwards compatable for the layered hd-dvd, and they would for bluray?

Add the fact that HD-DVD has already been compromised (yeah, I know bluray has too to some point, but it still has the +bd to implement) and I don't see why anyone is supporting HD-DVD other than the fact that the studios can't get along.