How soon will all discs in video shop be blu-ray?

Swift66

Was gonna get this t.v.

http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-12-32U400

but saw post online that said it won't play blu-ray. I don't care if I can still get dvds , but if there obsolete in a years time I'll be a bit pissed off. Anyone know what the story is?

Cheers

The Ritz

There's nothing about that tv that means it "won't play bluray" - where in heaven did you read that nonsense ?

Flat screen tvs come in two "flavours" - HDReady - in simple terms, able to display a picture at least 720 lines resolution, and FullHD, again in simple terms 1920x1080 resolution. BluRay discs are encoded as 1920x1080, but a bluray player will play them fine on a HDReady tv, it wll just "downscale" the image. In fact at smaller screen sizes 32 - 37", there's varying opinion as to whether the higher resolution makes a very significant difference.



As for when dvd's will be phased out and completely replaced by blu-ray, it probably won;t happen for a good while, there's too many dvd players out in the market place, it would take an age for the market to do a complete change over. Not to worry about, imo.


Ritz.

Swift66

Sorry Da Ritz, I did exaggerate slightly, what the poster said - yahoo answers - was:

You can certainly play BluRay discs if you have a BD player, but you wont get full HD with a Sony U series as it's 'HD ready' not full HD (1080).


So not getting full HD still means you'd be left with a perfectly image quality?
Swift

Swift66

Meant to write that not having full HD does not mean blu rays won't play and picture quality should still be very good?

The Ritz

Picture will still be fine on HDReady, especially on a 32" screen. There is a difference between picture quality in HDReady and FullHD, but at the price point you're talking about here (€450), you shouldn't have any complaints.


Ritz.