[Audio Empire]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:18:59 -0700, Arny Krueger wrote
(in article ):

"Audio Empire" wrote in message
...

I've also yet to buy a Blu-Ray player. I enjoy the HD programming on my
HDTV
from my AppleTV and my DirecTV satellite system, but I don't see enough
value
in HD via Blu-Ray to justify paying $40 for a Blu-Ray copy of a film that
I
can get in regular DVD for $20.

Since my physical media watching is primarily via Netflix, the tariff per
disc is only about $2 each.

IME, Blu Ray is a mixed bag. Some are as gorgeous as the other posters say,
and some might even be a little substandard if they were DVDs.

Again IME my ca. $100 Blu Ray player does an outstanding job of upscaling
DVDs.

Not and issue for me for two reasons: 1) I already have an up-scaling DVD
player that also plays (and up-scales) PAL. Since I buy a lot of motorsport
DVDs from England, I need that feature. 2) My Pioneer Elite 58" HDTV is more
than 10 years old (I bought it '99). It doesn't have an HDMI interface and
has only component inputs. All modern up-sampling players require HDMI to
up-sample