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Warm-up or Green or whatever else you may call it is going to cost us Americans TRILLIONS if we let them brow-beat us with their Voo-Doo lies and half-truths. Ecology is common sense and energy efficient means better value to us all unless Government mandates start forcing us in to crazy international deals which benefits everyone except Americans. Debating things…

That’s awesome, dude.  What a great multi-purpose media room.

In my opinion, neither company will go away anytime soon...both have loads of money invested in their format...Sony is really paying the price with all the displays at major retailers...it is no secret that the 2 to 1 or 1.5 to 1 ratio has been greately inflated lately with BOGO (buy 1 get one free) sales...so Blu is doing a…

Let me start this by saying that I have a Sony blu ray player and have never had any issues with any movie playing.  I own almost over 100 movies including Pirates of the Caribbean.  I have never heard of any problems playing that movie either, but for arguments sake lets say you did.  A simple software upgrade would fix…

I’ve had FIOS here in Tampa for about a year and a half now and it’s great!  The main reason I changed was that it was cheaper than cable and at the time had about twice as many HD channels.  I was paying almost $80 a month for cable with a HD box (not even a DVR).  I switched and…

An important point about Direct TV is missing from the article.  They are adding additional HD channels by reducing the bandwidth for each channel.  The additional compression results in them having amazingly poor HD. A well mastered DVD has more detail than most of DTV’s HD offerings.  This is a huge step backward.  It is in all of our best…

I have both formats. It all boils down to the reliability of the equipment. My PS3 is reliable, always up to date but noisy compared to my Toshiba A2 which has played everything I have put into it for the past 6 months and quieter. My BD-P1200 Samsung Blu-ray player is noisier than my Toshiba A2, but quieter than my…

I have a Blu-ray Samsung BD-P1200 that will not play Pirates of the Carebean at world’s end. My Toshiba A3 plays everything without a hitch, no upgrades. I don’t care about the technical stuff. I just watch movies. HDDVD is more reliable and customer friendly.

Nutdriver, I’d be real embarrassed at how many facts you got wrong in that paragraph. Then misinterpreted on top. Blu-Ray tech isn’t so bad, but it’s politically flawed. Many of it’s supporters are hopelessly clueless. For the record: HD-DVD also used blue-violet lasers at the same wavelength.  HD-DVD has better backwards compatibility with dvd - after all it is the…

Why do you guys support HD DVD. Technology always advances. Why would you bother wasting your money on a crappy HD DVD player when Blu is proven to be far superior. <b>Despite the different type of lasers used, Blu-ray products can easily be made backwards compatible with CDs and DVDs through the use of a BD/DVD/CD compatible optical pickup unit.…