What considerations should I have when upgrading to a blu ray player? Can you help me understand this upscaling thing?

I upgraded a year or so ago. the new drive plays blu-ray plays all the CD’s and DVD’s. I did not replace any of the DVD’s as the player still plays them all just fine, but I am getting only Blu-Ray for the new movies I buy.

What kind of TV you have plays into it. I resisted going Blu-Ray and buying an LED or LCD until early this year. I got a PS3 because it not only plays Blu-Ray but I could play games and stream Netflix and Hulu. I haven’t tried if it plays regular DVDs though.

Bought an LCD TV. Adjusted the screen and I got the HD look I want. Then, I decided to go for a bigger screen. Reason is I only needed to add a hundred bucks or so. But when I tried adjusting the settings to get the same HD quality before, the bigger LCD failed to deliver. Maybe something in its specs made it inferior because of its bigger size.

So I ended up buying an LED TV. The bigger size I wanted and the HD quality I needed. I added around 600 bucks though. But it’s really worth it. My gf and I didn’t go to the movies as often as before saving me around 600 dollars or so, so far. It won’t take long before the LED TV, Blu-Ray and Sony Surround System totaling about a $1,800.00 set-up get to pay for itself.

Plus, don’t mind waiting for the movie’s Blu-Ray release. Those few films worth enough to pay for in the theaters, those we go see.

You should get one that upscales DVDs to 1080p, plays Netflix and Hulu. Maybe you want one that has wireless so that you don’t have to run Cat6 to play Netflix, etc.

I am kind of leery of Sony now. My Sony Blu-Ray was cheap, but slow as a turtle to load BD. Also it does not play well with 20th Century Fox BD. I have to reboot it every other time I get one of those BD from Blockbuster. I have updated its firmware, so that is not the issue. I doubt they will provide an update for this issue. My prior device was a Sony 5 disk DVD player – also slow as a turtle.