David Blizzard - Vintage Audio - Home Theater - Movie and Music Reviews » DVD http://www.davidblizzard.com Ramblings about vintage audio, home theater, Blu-ray, Hi Def, HD movies and music reviews. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:01:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 No Minority Report on Blu-Ray? http://www.davidblizzard.com/minority-report-blu-ray/ http://www.davidblizzard.com/minority-report-blu-ray/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:24:24 +0000 dblizzard http://www.davidblizzard.com/?p=24 I was looking for minority report on BluRay or HD-DVD and had no idea it wasn’t available until just now. What a bummer. I can get Rio Bravo on Blu-Ray or Christmas Vacation on HDDVD but not minority Report?
Don’t get me wrong, I like both of those movies but there is no reason for an old grainy western like Rio Bravo to be out on HD before Minority Report and Christmas Vacation has a choice of stereo or mono track on HD. Give me a break Hollywood.

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Update: Turned out even at a great price the Magnavox NB500MG9 Blu-Ray player was not up to the task. There were way too many discs from NetFlix that just wouldn’t play on it. We constantly had to use the Playstation to watch Blu-Ray discs from NetFlix. It was very slow but that would have been OK if it just worked.

I recommend the JVC XV-BP1 for features and performance. At current prices there is no reason to buy less. There are better, if you have the budget for it.

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