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Do Not Buy Any Blu-ray Player.

Posted by ruxtonvet on October 18, 2007 at 04:31:37:
Just read a very interesting article in Widescreen Review about why Paramount stopped releasing in Blu-ray and now only releases in HD-previously it supported both formats. Blu-ray unlike HD does not have a fixed set of specifications but is a fluid set of standards that hardware and software manufacturers are constantly changing. To make matters worse the hardware manufacturers can op out of many of these standards if they wish to. Thus the failure rate for Blu-ray is almost always going to be very high no matter what player you buy compared to HD. Plus and I guess this is a major point for Paramount- it is cheaper to manufacture a HD than a Blu-ray disc. Combine the above with a company like Samsung which does not provide timely updates for their players and has poor customer support but loves to issue a new player every month and you have a formula for failure. Sounds a little like Bush and Iraq.