Yup.....blu-ray in all but a TKO. The existing HD DVD players are going for a swan song cause they will soon be nothing but glorified standard def players.
Netflix is dropping HD DVD .....adding another coffin nail.
I bought a PS3 yesterday and it has replaced the Toshiba player. (HD DVD)
From here on in we rent and buy only blu-ray. Wish it were a bit more of an inexpensive endeavor to timeshift blu-ray to a disc. The copyright protection on both blu-ray and HD DVD was broken almost immediately.
I am not a big game player but the PS3 is a great usage as a blu ray player. Considering the base level Sony standalone retails for $399.00 and the PS3 retails now at $399.00 its a no brainer on what to buy if you are looking to get into blu-ray now.
I am sure we will see a strong market saturation of movie titles in the next 18 months and drops in the retail costs of those movies.
I have a bit over 2K standard def titles. I plan to start selling the most favored classic , popular titles for what I can get for them and reinvesting in my most wanted blu-ray titles. Of course as soon as the blu -ray media becomes economical I will rent blu-ray titles and time shift them to my own media to archive.
In the meantime Netflix and Blockbuster both have reasonable libraries of Blu-ray titles available for rent now.
Man ...some of the better done blu-ray titles are STUNNING in full 1080P glory.
