DVD player died. Should we go blue ray ?
We always carry a DVD player and assortment of discs. Have been used for rainy evenings with no OTA TV, or sickness, so staying around TT all day. Our small portable DVD player finally died. I'm ab...
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Yes, you will want to have BlueRay capability, as we are starting to see cheap BlueRay discs in place of DVD discs.
One caveat: You may want to keep your DVD player, too, as some burned DVDs will not play in newer BlueRay players.
I also second the motion for digital storage. A nice PC with an external BlueRay/DVD R/W drive, and a copy of MakeMKV and HandBrake will allow you to rip BlueRay and DVD discs to a hard drive and then copy to flash drive, if desired. With the hard drive or flash drive connected to BlueRay player or a smart TV, you can let your kids watch Frozen over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and... well, you get the idea. Have one drive for the kids, and keep the stuff for grown-ups on another.
In our rig, I can play DVDs on the original Concertone unit (Composite TV input), BlueRays on the Samsung BD Player (HDMI 2), and whatever I want on my PC (HDMI 3), with the audio routed through the TV back to the Concertone system.
One caveat: You may want to keep your DVD player, too, as some burned DVDs will not play in newer BlueRay players.
I also second the motion for digital storage. A nice PC with an external BlueRay/DVD R/W drive, and a copy of MakeMKV and HandBrake will allow you to rip BlueRay and DVD discs to a hard drive and then copy to flash drive, if desired. With the hard drive or flash drive connected to BlueRay player or a smart TV, you can let your kids watch Frozen over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and... well, you get the idea. Have one drive for the kids, and keep the stuff for grown-ups on another.
In our rig, I can play DVDs on the original Concertone unit (Composite TV input), BlueRays on the Samsung BD Player (HDMI 2), and whatever I want on my PC (HDMI 3), with the audio routed through the TV back to the Concertone system.
