Thinking Of Buying A Blu-ray Player? Read This First

That is the reason we bought 3 PS3s instead of investing in Blu-ray players. We can stream Netflix & Hulu and a lot of other stuff + play games + Blu-ray. That way if Blu-ray becomes obsolete, we can still use our players for something else.

We use our steraming video more often than Blu-ray or our DVR. The only time we watch Blu-ray is for an awesome movie like Transformers or Star Trek which just MUST be seen in Blu-ray or if the movie/tv show isn’t available on streaming or DVR.

Oh? Can I get brand new Criterion Releases downloaded in HD from anywhere? No? Guess Blu-Ray it is then…

Sure streaming is the new thing but all the movies on Netflix are old…

Hi Michele,
Good thinking. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

SelfMadeCelo,
Agree. But this might change if more folks start to stream.

Regards, Ron

It’s pretty obvious where things are going when the same Sony Blue Ray I saw a short time ago was going for $349 is now selling for $159. Those stores that overbought on those $349 players will lose their shirts unless their vendors cut them some slack/love. No body is making a killing on these things. Gone are the days when I made 20% to 100% profit on this video/audio stuff. When I saw my workload go from 35 hours a week making good money to working 70 hours making just above minimum wage ( when you factor in all that unpaid overtime) I got out. Comp USA bought The Good Guys and both went out within months of each other. The hand writing was already on the wall for Circuit City ( the CEO of Best Buy even had a mock ICU set up with K-Mart and Circuit City on ‘life support” You can buy Kenmore appliances there I don’t know if Sears owns K-Mart or visa verses.) Circuit City of course went down while their employees were literally telling them to go to Best Buy before the inevitable end. Fortunately for people who invested in HD titles they could send in the empty package (they didn’t want the actual disc) could exchange them for the Blue Ray version Their HD player? Maybe if they acted quickly enough they could pawn it off on a less than observant pawn broker. As for me and Blue Ray? I can buy a myriad of TVs now and get one for free. I can get a DVD writer VHS combo for $89. I just bought a non-writer version a few months ago for $39 .I can tell my dad to wait for the Blue Ray player to go to $89 and he’ll say “It will go lower, I’m in no hurry for that.” It reminds me when my brother worked for Pan Am and he told us he was considering buying some Pan Am stock for a $1 a share. My dad and I said at the exact same time “IT could/would go lower.” My Dad, ever the testy pessimist said could., I said would. I told him “The first woman head of the New York Stock Exchange wall papered her dining room with stock certificates from the crash of ‘29.being cheaper than wall paper. After a few years one wall was worth $50,000. Not going to be your luck but I would use it as cheap wall paper–and that’s it. You did after all remind me that the famous PAN AM building is not only not owned by them but not even the planes they’re using.” Their stock went to Zero. But their routes and my brother’s job was picked up by United. Can’t say the same with Circuit City. Nobody would have them. DIVIXX anyone?

Thanks for your sharing, BTW with new technology 3D on blu-ray, I can’t resist to get it and wait for AVATAR, my favorite awesome movies.