It looks like this one would work with your TV: http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-BDX13...=1-1&keywords=blu+ray+player+component+output But as others have said, an HD TV that will be a huge upgrade from your tube TV isn't that big an investment if you don't mind staying in the 42 inch or smaller size. PS3 is the best blu ray investment if you play games at all.
HD isn't the same as Blu-ray so I don't think it's days are numbered. You aren't streaming 25/50 gig movies with 1080P and uncompressed audio.
Thanks for all the advise. Bought my cousin's old roku for $10. It works perfect with my tv. Now I just have to find a cheap dvd player. thanks again.
you can d/l or rent these mp4s from many sources, the file sizes are usually generally 8-10gb at 1080p.. they look fantastic, its enough that it could make bluray or any physical media obsolete. i could find you a 3gb movie from tpb that looks great..
also what do you mean hd isnt the same as bluray... bluray disc is a just a format that is large enough to store the larger file sizes high definition video requires .. hd simply means high definition or do you own a bluray television.
physical media has advantage of better picture and sound. Looking "great" or "fantastic" don't really mean anything. HD is a general term with a wide range of meanings. You said you watch all the HD movies your heart desires. I bet some DVD's look better than your "HD" movies. Blu-ray has a massive data content advantage.
just like cds are better than mp3s because its uncompressed, but most of the time people cant tell the difference.. an mp4 with 6channel audio looks everybit as good as a bluray, ive seen it first hand ive watched the same movie on both formats and was expecting to notice significant difference with bluray. didnt see it..
6 channel audio? So DD5.1 = DTS-HD Master Audio = DD True HD now? I would say you are stretching the truth a bit there. I would bet a large portion of your movies have mp3 audio. Also, media that has been downloaded and stored locally is not streaming. That method will never be for the masses, even if all content goes digital in the future. It will be much more likely the movies will be stored remotely for on demand viewing. If you are saying most people are too dumb to recognize the difference between a 128 kbit/s and 44.1 kHz/16, you win. But there are many people that understand the difference and want the superior experience.
never said online streaming and d/l to storage are the same thing so... dual layer-dvd capacity is somewhere around 8gb, i have many movies that are larger than 10gb with aac/ac3 audio. the mp4s are packed with 2-channel/6-channel. im d/l'ing mkv and extracting streams and packing them into mp4/m4v. all im saying is a 10 gb file you could rent/buy from a vendor like microsoft, looks every bit as good as a bluray disc despite the compression. so much to the point that most will not see a difference.
I have invested like thousand of dollars into the stupid DVDs and now pretty much I stop buying Blu-ray. But Blu-ray will last longer than DVD ever will. 1080 is all you need with the tv size and how far you sit away from your tv.
What blows is it doesn't cost but a few cents more to make a BD but retail markup over DVD is keeping people away.
