blu-ray players

[radiotvnut]

Over the years, I've heard about and seen blu-ray players in various advertisements; but, they were fairly expensive and I never felt the need to get one.

Last week, someone I know bought several blu-ray players for Christmas presents and he wanted me to connect the one he'd bought for himself to his regular CRT TV and one to his father's flatscreen.

What he had were Panasonic models and he bought them from Sears for around $70. These had both an HDMI output, as well as the standard red, white, and yellow output jacks and there was also a setting in the menu to select between 16:9 and 4:3.

Since these players are coming down in price and will play standard DVD's, I suspect that, in the near future, regular DVD players will be phased out in favor of blu-ray players that will play everything.

I realize that names don't mean much anymore; but, Panasonic seems to be one of the few brands that makes decent stuff and those $70 players seem to be a good deal, if they'll hold up.