Which Blu-ray Player Should I Get?

Sony has released version 2.20 of its PlayStation 3 firmware which might just give people a reason to buy the console for something other than games... Since HD DVD is basically out of the 'picture' now and Blu-Ray has taken center stage, the new question is "Which Blu-ray player should I get?"...

This is a seriously complicated issue, but without going into too much detail; when you consider that there are a couple different versions of Blu-Ray out there and some players dont enable all features from both versions, it can be a real pain to find the correct player.

Sooooo, why not get a [quite designery-looking] PS3 and just get updates from the interwebs when they are made available? The PS3 is an internet capable machine and as is being announced right now; you can simply download new usability to your player as new features are introduced on the discs themselves. The new version (aka 2.0) enables a little something called BD-LIVE which is basically a way to access internet content for the movies you watch... see the future yet?

[via psxextreme.com]

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Um.... the stand alone, 2.0 Blu-ray players also get downloads via the Internet to update. Isn't that the point of 2.0? But since they're more expensive than PS3, it makes sense to get the Playstation, even if it's just going to be used as a player.

posted by techgirllaura on March 25th 2008 at 7:34pm
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Go with the PS3. You get the added bonus of games. I bought the BD-P1400 as a Chrstmas present for my spouse...and have kind of wished I'd been a little selfish and gotten myself the PS3 instead and gotten my spouse something else. Sadly though I couldn't...my spouse is tech challenged and I would have never been able to explain that...."Yes dear, it plays games AND Blu-rays."

posted by Schodts on March 26th 2008 at 3:31pm
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