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Blu Ray HD DVD Photography Shack Guide

Blu Ray HD DVD With The Best Features

By Nikos L Maxwell

Blu Ray HD DVD offers us the finer picture details, more vivid color and superior encoding. Additionally, you can count on Surround Sound 7.0, rather than 5.0, and more interactive menu features.

Since Sony’s Blu Ray format won the war against its slightly inferior rival Toshiba/Microsoft’s HD DVDs, and all the giant movie studios have agreed to release all new films in Blu Ray media format, consumers are left with little choice other than to upgrade and move on. However, there are other advantages to this new technology, besides quality. You may actually learn a thing or two!

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Play Station 3 Uses Blu Ray Disc HD DVD Technology

Currently, the cheapest way to buy a Blu Ray HD DVD player is to shell out the $399 for a PlayStation3, which comes already equipped with the technology. Chances are, you may only use the machine to play your high-definition Blu Ray discs.

However, you may also decide to purchase a video game "for the heck of it" and find a fun, new hobby! Here are some of the top-selling titles to start your collection: Resistance - Fall Of Man, Madden NFL, Call of Duty 3, Marvel - Ultimate Alliance, Need For Speed, NBA 2K7, Untold Legends-Dark Kingdom and Tony Hawk’s Project 8.

LCD TV With A Blu Ray HD DVD Combination

Since the best coding, surround sound and picture is now available with Blu Ray HD DVD technology, many consumers who held off buying HD Television Sets have finally buckled. To sweeten the deal, this month Sony has announced that they’ll be selling an LCD TV that comes with a Blu Ray HD DVD player inside!

Unfortunately, they haven’t set a time table on this new combo, so the consumers, whose tax rebate checks are burning a hole in their pocket, will have to settle for what’s available. To get you started, you don’t have to spend thousands.

For instance, you may want to look at Circuit City’s Samsung 30" Widescreen CRT for $899 or Panasonic Widescreen CRT for $599. Best Buy has a high definition Magnovox 30" 1080-pixel-resolution for just $499 as well.

More Features With Blu Ray HD DVD

Despite all the exciting innovations on the horizon, some critics remain adamant that Blu Ray HD DVD will just be a short-lived stepping stone on the way to digital downloads. "Disney movies can already be downloaded via Apple iTunes, cable companies offer videos on demand, and consumers can record shows and movies in high definition on their HD-compatible DVD recorders," explains Pai-Ling Yin, assistant professor of strategy at M.I.T.

He says that if anything, this innovation will only serve as a tutor to those people who may be interested in downloading but aren’t quite into the groove yet. Blu Ray discs will offer downloadable features to load directly onto the discs via the internet. Yin adds, "Why bother investing in a player when it may soon be obsolete?"

About the Author:
Nikos L Maxwell has written a number of articles on digital photography and digital editing software including Digital Editing Software, Adobe Photoshop Tutorial, Large Images, Edit Pictures, Fuji Film Digital Cameras, Video Editing Computers, Digital Image Processing, Ray Disc, Blu Ray, Blu Ray Disc, Blu Ray Reviews, Blu Ray Vs HD DVD, DVD Duplication, Ray HD, HD DVD.

Keep a lookout as more articles are added from this popular author on this website in the near future.

More Blu Ray Facts....

Have you made the switch from DVD over to Blu Ray yet? If you have not then what is stopping you? It could be the price to pay for all of those movies that you love and own on DVD.

Many people find that slowly re-acquiring those beloved movies over onto the more expensive Blu-Ray version is a tad bit expensive but there are ways around this. Did you know that some programs allow you to burn a Blu-Ray version of your favorite movie? The trick is to find the right software programs.

Owning a Blu Ray collection is something most movie collector’s dream of nightly. The problem is the expense of acquiring all those favorite movies again but in Blu-Ray format. It can quickly add up to a major expense. There is a solution to this problem though.

It involves burning the DVD’s over into Blu-Ray format with the right software program. If you do not have the software program this may be a problem but thankfully there are programs out there that you can purchase.

The opportunity to own a Blu Ray disc collection is a great one and should not be passed up. But what do you do with all of those DVD’s you collected over the years?

Plus let’s not forget that Blu-Ray discs can be quite expensive in comparison to DVD’s. Converting all of your collection over into Blu-Ray can be a chore, a very expensive one at that. The answer to your problem is to burn the DVD onto Blu-Ray format.

Are you a movie fan that just is not pleased with the quality of your DVDs? Is the color and sound not what you expect from your extensive collection? Maybe you should try swapping those old DVDs for Blu Ray discs. You will be surprised by the difference in picture quality and sound.

But these discs do not come cheap. They are more expensive than DVDs but well worth the price. The trick is to burn your own Blu-Ray movies at home with a software program designed especially for burning movies.

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