Question About Blu-Ray Disc

Unless you have a blu-ray drive or player then you can't play a blu-ray disc.

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Be careful with your semantics, since it's important.

A DVD (Digital Video Disc) is a standard-def disc. It will play on all DVD and Blu-ray players.

A BD (Blu-ray Disc) is a hi-def disc. It will play only on a Blu-ray player.

You said you wanted to "start buying some DVDs." I think you meant BDs.

Part of the new technology is getting used to the new terminology.

DVDs and BDs are not the same thing. And they're not interchangeable, so they shouldn't be as far as what you call them.

By the way, I recommend buying a PlayStation3, whenever you decide to buy a BD player. It's fully upgradeable, and it doesn't matter whether you want to play games on it or not. It's still the best BD player on the market right now. And it's fairly cheap by comparison, especially considering the quality of the machine.

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Updated On: 4/19/08 at 09:35 PM

I would only add that i hope you don't use credit cards to buy the bds. They will just collect interest while waiting to be played.

Sorry--I've just become converted to suze ormanism so these things pop into my head. LOL

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Thanks to Best12, I chose the PS3 route and couldn't be happier.

Aside from slowly buiding a BD collection, I'm happy that Netflix has pretty much every blu-ray that's been released and I can rent those I'm not willing to buy - even if it's just to check out a scene or two.

While there are some amazing transfers (like Baron Munchausen, the Harry Potter movies, Chicago, etc) - nothing is as amazing to reference as things like Ratatouille, Cars, etc which are of course, completely digital.

The upconversion is fantastic on the PS3 - and I highly suggest buying the optional remote (which you can get for 19.99).

The latest and greatest firmware for BD-Java is also now available for the PS3...

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