The Best Blu Ray Players
Blu ray players are quickly becoming the most popular way to watch movies at home. Reasons for this are pretty "clear" (get it?). Blu ray players offer a night and day comparison to regular DVD players. A blu ray dvd movie contains over 2 million pixels, while your typical dvd movie has less than 350,000. This allows you to see every detail, every pore and dimple on your favorite actor's face. Of course in order to get the full experience of a blu ray dvd you will need a 1080p HDTV. Best Buy has a great one on sale now. RCA 46" 1080p LCD. Price The price of bu ray players have substantially dropped over the past few years. So has the cost of blu ray dvds. (Commonly miss-spelled as "blue ray dvd") You can find a great blu ray dvd player for less than $200 if you do some shopping online. Like this LG BD570 Network Blu-ray Disc Player  .Basics With the lowered cost of blu ray players and the fact that after a couple of years most TV's will all be 1080p, buying a regular DVD player would be like taking huge steps backward. No need to ditch your old DVD collection though. Most blu ray dvd players come equipped with the ability to upconvert DVDs. Making them look even better than your DVD player. Some blu ray players also come with BD-Live, a feature that allows you to download new content for a particular blu ray movie, Netflix, or web browsing. Some blu ray dvd players will state that they're “BD-Live ready” which means they lack the necessary internal memory to actually use the feature. You can always use a flash drive, but it's best to buy a player that has memory already built in. Most blu ray disc players will also have an ethernet connection or wireless capability so you can view photos and stream multimedia online via Picasa, Netflic, Vudu, YouTube, Slacker, and Pandora. Some other manufacturers like Vizio and Samsung inlcude widgets that display the weather, news, and gives you access to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. 
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. At $349 this device is extremely hard to beat. It comes with a 320GB hard drive, Sony "Move" for interactive play, social networking capabilities, netflix, photos... every feature mentioned previously and it has the ability to play and download hundreds of the best games on the market. Fun for the whole family! Also the Sony Playstation 3 has the ability to be upgraded. So it will always be the most up to date blu ray player on the market. Not bad for an extra $100!