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#1
BubbRubb - Posted 10:35 am PDT 10/17/08 (1276 Posts)
BD-Live Ready means that they plan to add that functionality through a future firmware update.
#2
zidane - Posted 10:36 am PDT 10/17/08 (412 Posts)
this is ... a good price for blu-ray- glad to see prices are coming down! my parents need one as they have a nice new tv, and now need a blu-ray player to go with it
#3
nammer - Posted 10:55 am PDT 10/17/08 (132 Posts)
Predict Black Friday deals at $99 for Blu-Ray players. Retailers are going to be struggling and they will need some great or crazy deals to get people to come in.
#4
ChugokuOtaku - Posted 10:55 am PDT 10/17/08 (1438 Posts)
plays MPEG2... is that even worth advertising?
#5
bubbabowden - Posted 10:58 am PDT 10/17/08 (76 Posts)
....just to let everyone know.....no problems with iron man, rambo, new indiana jones,james bond...regular dvds ....go for it....
#6
dr_toddsucks - Posted 11:03 am PDT 10/17/08 (777 Posts)
Oink
#7
iTurk - Posted 11:04 am PDT 10/17/08 (396 Posts)
Most predict that Blu-Ray's flame is only going to burn for 5 years or so before downloads and other tech takes over. They better start dropping these prices fast in order to create a customer base before people figure out better alternatives are coming.
#8
Vortex3D - Posted 11:10 am PDT 10/17/08 (10 Posts)
#7: Don't hold your breath for download. Internet providers are already screaming of the high bandwidth usage of movies downloads.
Second, you don't get high definition audio and bonus materials. Sure it's possible to add that to download but that also increases the bandwidth usage that Internet providers already hate.
Second, you don't get high definition audio and bonus materials. Sure it's possible to add that to download but that also increases the bandwidth usage that Internet providers already hate.
#9
iTurk - Posted 11:57 am PDT 10/17/08 (396 Posts)
I don't think I can hold my breath for 5+ years! It's not going to be like CD's or DVD's. Technology is moving much faster these days and that's not going to slow down. I have faith that those who will profit from it will figure out how to give us a FAT download pipe 
#10
petep2112 - Posted 12:39 pm PDT 10/17/08 (398 Posts)
#11
phanrqp - Posted 12:39 pm PDT 10/17/08 (95 Posts)
Amazon has the same player for 214.99 with free Matrix Collection
#12
zidane - Posted 1:03 pm PDT 10/17/08 (412 Posts)
#10 - meh ... gonna be too expensive to start out with, and i don't need it that bad- doubt i'll need it at all. i'm good with my DVR- as crappy as it is
#13
foomench - Posted 1:34 pm PDT 10/17/08 (1102 Posts)
ISPs are screaming about people hogging upstream bandwidth for file sharing. If content providers could supply high bandwidth movies in a legal and usable form I'm sure the ISPs would be happy to sell us a bigger pipe.
#14
qtn2x - Posted 2:18 pm PDT 10/17/08 (381 Posts)
can it play .mkv file?
#15
ilikemoney - Posted 2:53 pm PDT 10/17/08 (105 Posts)
Finally an alternative from Sony!
#16
nolonemo - Posted 5:27 pm PDT 10/17/08 (843 Posts)
BD Live - automatically keeps your rootkit up to date!
#17
dalejunk84 - Posted 12:46 am PDT 10/18/08 (11 Posts)
hmm, with this price, I have hard time to decide to buy PS3
Wii
iPod