Ray HD Photography Shack Guide
Blu Ray HD Players And Discs
By Nikos L Maxwell
New technology is always expensive for three reasons:
1) It costs more to convert factories over to new production
methods, 2) The demand usually exceeds the supply capacity
initially and 3) New technology hasn’t been developed
to find cheaper, more efficient ways of manufacturing
yet.
For the Blu Ray HD disc, the story is the same. First
of all, some facilities are paying as much as $250 million
to upgrade to 80 production lines for Blu Ray movies
and games. Secondly, market analysts are predicting
a shortage of 5 million Blu Ray discs this year as consumers’
expectations overwhelm what manufacturers can possibly
produce.
Lastly, Pioneer and Mitsubishi are currently working
on new technology that will make discs cheaper to produce,
but it’s not near completion just yet.
Finding Cheap Blu Ray Disc Players
First, we’ll take a look at where to find cheap Blu
Ray HD Players. Currently, the best way to get hooked
up with the new Bluray HD DVD player, which will replace
DVD players over the next few years, is to simply buy
a $399 PlayStation3!
These amazing machines can be fully upgraded, have
the ability to play video games and will even be able
to sync up to your iPhone, and in the very near future,
will be able to transmit ringtones or accept remote
control type signals.
Expecting A Price Drop
If $399 is still a bit too steep for your liking and
you’re not the kind of person who spends hours sifting
through featurettes, interactive games or on-demand
purchasing options, then you may want the bare bones
basic stand-alone player, which is expected to drop
in price when Sony unveils its 2.0 player this summer.
If you aren’t so much a quality/tech geek but you just
want to be able to buy new movies, all of which are
being released in Blu Ray format only, then there will
be version 1.1 players that lack internet WiFi/ethernet
capabilities for much less eventually. Right now you
can purchase the Samsung BD P1400 for as low as $259.99
from the Refurb Depot or for $299.99 from Amazon.
Finding Cheaper Blu Ray Discs
Next we’ll look at where to find cheap Blu Ray HD discs.
Since the cost of manufacturing BR discs is so high
(just a blank BD-R costs $25!), the cheapest way to
buy is to look for all the deals from various
retailers.
Since the technology is so new, you can bet retailers
will be marking down prices like crazy to offset the
"start-up costs" of changing over from DVD
to High-definition Blu Ray DVD. For example, Amazon.com
has "Buy-2-Get-1-Free" Blu Ray sales right
now. Similarly, Circuit City and Best Buy are dropping
many titles down to $19.99 for a limited time!
Advanced Audio Of Blu Ray HD
To handle the advanced audio of your Blu Ray HD, you
may need a receiver with HDMI inputs. For just $270,
the Sony STR-DG810 will do the trick, offering a Dolby
TrueHD decoder.
However, the next step up is the Onkyo TX-SR605 or
TX-SR705 for $290 and $550 respectively, and these offer
more advanced decoding with better amps for those really
loud home theater experiences. In terms of sound quality,
this is the most important component for great at-home
audio, so check out the Monitor Audio, Paradigm, Definitive
Technologies and Revel Concerta lines.
Pioneer is also a good brand to keep an eye on, since
they are always developing good-quality, lower priced
products. If you have the Sony Playstation3, then keep
an eye out for frequent (free) Bluray HD firmware updates,
like the latest DTS-HD Master Audio support/High Resolution
Audio codec!
About the Author:
Nikos L Maxwell has written a number of articles on
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Ray Reviews, Blu
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Duplication, 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....
Owning a Blu Ray collection is something many 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.
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