Blu-ray Deal Alert

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has revealed an exciting offer for those of you who are still looking to pick up a Blu-ray player. If you purchase a Blu-ray player (including the PS3) between July 1st and September 30th, you will automatically qualify to receive 5 Blu-ray movies absolutely free. Combine this with existing offers (like the 5 free Blu-ray movies with purchase of a Panasonic DMP-BD10A), and you could receive up to 10 free Blu-ray movies with the purchase of a player.

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=280

and that works with PS3's also because it is a Blu-ray disk player. Looks like Blu-ray is going to win against HD dvd

thats a really smart move... more people will buy blu-ray players and ps3's because of this

sweet deal but im broke

lol wat if there was blu ray umds.

mabye but u would have install a chip or a new lcd. but it would be sweet

[DarkPacMan77]

Not interested. Hell, I'd still be buying VHS tapes if my VCR worked. I'm sticking with plain-jane DVDs. I just don't understand why I'd pay more for the same thing.

-DarkPacMan77-

Not really the same thing...better picture, better sound, etc...just have to have the right t.v. and home theater system to notice the difference. Take the ps3/xbox 360 setup demo in electronic stores as an example, all of them are playing on proper t.v.'s so the graphics look a lot better. you put those systems on a regular t.v. and the graphics wont look anything close to what they should.

[DarkPacMan77]

I beg to differ though. I've played ps3 at best buy and at my friends house and my friend has a crappy old tv and the picture quality still looked identical to the point of me not being able to tell where the HD improved on the picture or not. I'm sure that at some measurable amount, HD is better; I know the facts and all, but the real-world difference isn't great enough for me to notice or care about. Same goes with the format difference with blu-ray over DVD. Blu-ray = VHS to me. The only thing that made me switch to DVDs from VHS was that VCRs are never built to quality. VCRs, which play the media, also killed quite a few tapes. Picture quality / sound quality are the same to me and people said that the jump from VHS to DVD was huge... but to me it only really helped make my collection take up less space.

-DarkPacMan77-

[brentbizzle]

Personally I don't care for the cost of HD, or Blu-ray for that matter. Regular DVD technology is fine for me at the moment. In fact, I don't even use DVD's anymore. I download movies and keep them on my computer to play through my softmoded xbox. It's clean, simple, and ultra portable. No DVD's to scratch or even manage... well, except for hard copies I keep in a box at home.

[ace]

I totally agree with dpm and brent, I see no reason to pay so much more money for blu ray then just staying with regular old DVD's. I mean really, I don't even have a flat panel tv anywhere in my house. And I really don't care to spend all that money for one either. A little 20" flat screen tv for my bedroom, and that's about as good as its going to get for me. And a couple of free movies is not going to make me buy something that could possibly cost me $600 (If I got one it'd be the ps3) when I don't seem to have the "right tv". It would cost way to much to upgrade everything so I could enjoy something that doesn't make a difference to me either way. And like brent, I don't even have a dvd player. I use my softmodded xbox to play all my dvd's.

In other words, there's no way I would buy any of that blu ray crap. It might look better but I don't really care. And 5 free movies definitely isn't going to persuade me to buy one.

lol wat if there was blu ray umds.

if only there were than all our games will be 5 times longer

bastards and there brilliant marketing techniques.

Even with this offer big deal. What the point. "The girls on your adult videos not looking good enough any more? Get blu-ray!" NOT.

LOL

Now i would think about buying a PS3 but really the blu-ray is the last thing on my mind.

well i have a wii so i will just use Nintendo's comment for video games: "its more about gameplay." I agree with that.


I haven't even seen anything in blu-ray format so i can't really comment on the whole HD factor.

i didn't even know there was blu-ray players except for the ps3 and LG anyways i really dont' think there is a point in like HD and what not as for blu-ray that has like way more memory storage than a dvd as in quality i'm fine with dvd's i dont see the greatness of hd and blu ray

[brentbizzle]

I really don't see the point in companies boasting technology like this when many people (at least in America) aren't ready for it...
Most people don't even have TV's nice enough to utilize all that is offered now. Some free Blu-ray disc's thrown at them isn't going to be enough to get them to go out and buy a player AND a TV nice enough for it.

And as far as Blu-ray games go, I think we've all seen how Sony's effectively utilized all that storage ::sarcasm::