Anyone have a Blu Ray Player?

[fitty76]

I'm looking to buy one. Most people say just buy a PS3. Should I do that? Or is there another alternative?

[carpanfan96]

There are other alternatives, but the PS3 is actually a really good blue ray player.

Here are some reviews for some players. Me personally I'd go with a PS3.

Really one of the biggest draw backs to using the PS3 as a BD player is the fact that there aren't very many Universal remotes that work with it and the ones that do cost quite a bit of change.

http://reviews.cnet.com/best-blu-ray-players/

if your positive your not going to play games then to save some money for movies or what not I'd go with either

Samsung bd-c6500

http://reviews.cnet.com/blu-ray-players-recorders/samsung-bd-c6500/4505-9991_7-33971080.html

or Sony's bdp-s570

http://reviews.cnet.com/blu-ray-players-recorders/sony-bdp-s570/4505-9991_7-33971082.html

[Guild]

Is it a Blu Ray burner for your PC? If not just spend a little more and get the PS3.

[fitty76]

See I already have an Xbox 360 and a Wii. So it is going to be tough to convince the wife that we need another gaming system.

[carpanfan96]

See I already have an Xbox 360 and a Wii. So it is going to be tough to convince the wife that we need another gaming system.

If your needing to convince her, just go to a place that has the Samsung 3d bdp and say see it's around the same price plus it game play games......or you can do what I did and not mention the game part at all.....

If she won't go for it, the other two options I listed are great players as well. Most of the really good players are going to run 180/190 - 250 for the most part.

[mmmbeans]

ps3 also has a one of the better upscalers for regular dvds.

[Guild]

ps3 also has a one of the better upscalers for regular dvds.

The picture is pretty good but after getting used to Blu-Ray it will annoy you even with a good upscaler.

[mmmbeans]

doesn't annoy me. prefer bluray but most of the movies i want to watch aren't available... so meh.

[Jbro]

Samsung bd-c6500

http://reviews.cnet.com/blu-ray-players-recorders/samsung-bd-c6500/4505-9991_7-33971080.html

I have this one in my bedroom and hate it.

[Guild]

I have this one in my bedroom and hate it.

Why?

[C47]

Get a PS3 it's pretty cheap and you can also stream movies on it...

[SorthNarolina]

with the way the market is going Blu-Ray is going to die soon too. I think I'm just going to wait until downloading movies becomes a smoother process. It'll be a lot more convienient than having to deal with a bunch of dvds.

[mmmbeans]

blu ray won't die this generation. it'll more than likely be the last disc based medium but it'll be a complete medium. the bandwidth and infrastructure simply aren't there to stream movies in full HD.

[WhoDatJorts]

with the way the market is going Blu-Ray is going to die soon too.

If by "soon" you mean 10 years....

Blu-ray will be here for a minute or two.