01-31-2010, 06:40 PM
ztirffritz wrote:
Why bother with buying a disc of a movie when you can stream it from Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, or YouTube for the same price and know that you're media won't become obsolete in 3 years.
I don't disagree on those points but Blu-ray players do an excellent job of playing DVDs and are starting to be priced very reasonably. There are also plenty of competitively priced movies on Blu-ray on the shelves now. In other words, there are few reasons not to go Blu-ray now if playing physical media is your thing.
Keep in mind too that Blu-ray is the highest technical quality medium available to consumers. There's no better way to show off that new 1080p HDTV...