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DVD/Blu-ray About Blu-ray
Want cinema quality movie experiences in your own home? If you have upgraded to a high-definition TV in recent years, the next step is Blu-ray. From the first moment you clap eyes on Blu-ray you’ll be amazed at how much clearer, sharper and more luscious the picture is, and you’ll never be able to look at your old DVD player the same!
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About Blu-ray |
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Want cinema quality movie experiences in your own home? If you have upgraded to a high-definition TV in recent years, the next step is Blu-ray. From the first moment you clap eyes on Blu-ray you’ll be amazed at how much clearer, sharper and more luscious the picture is, and you’ll never be able to look at your old DVD player the same! |
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*Please note this is not the full Blu-ray experience. Please see below for full details on how
Blu-ray can be easily set-up in your own home. |
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Blu-ray Requirements |
| Please find below an outline of the technical requirements to create the ultimate Blu-ray experiences in your very own home. |
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Frequently Asked Questions
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It's a next-generation format designed especially to hold lots more information than standard DVDs,meaning high definition video, audio and more.
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Up to 10 times what can squeeze onto a DVD disc. So, with all that space, better quality vision and audio can feature, along with the potential for piles more extras. To put it even simpler, up to nine hours of high definition vision, or 23 hours of standard DVD-quality vision!
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Quality, quality and more quality! Especially if you've upgraded to a high-definition TV in recent years, for when you first clap your eyes on a Blu-ray played back you'll be amazed at how much clearer, sharper and more luscious the picture is, even over the best DVD.
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A Blu-ray player will hook up to any television that you can connect a DVD player to. If you wish to
gain every benefit from the format, however, this is your perfect chance to justify putting a big, shiny new 'high definition' (which, simply, has a picture made up of lots more 'dots', so it's more detailed) LCD or plasma TV in pride of place in your home cinema room. You'll also get all the benefits of HD TV broadcasts – sportscasts like the footy are so detailed it's almost like being there!
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Your Blu-ray player will plug into the audio inputs of your TV or stereo just like a DVD player does. If you're looking to upgrade your sound experience, you have all manner of options with amplifiers and speakers which any good electronics store will be able to advise you on. You can even install an eight channel system – seven speakers and a subwoofer (which makes those rumbles happen) – that will knock your socks of sonically.
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You can rent or buy movies or TV shows on Blu-ray at your local BLOCKBUSTER® store. Other stores
stock them too, but why go there when we can help?!
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No, they're as welcome as ever! A Blu-ray player will also play your DVDs. What most people who
have upgraded to Blu-ray do is keep their DVD collections and just purchase new releases on the new format – all the big studio films are now released on Blu-ray and DVD at the same time!
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It depends upon what your favourite movie is. Currently, the majority of classics are available on Bluray,but if you're waiting for Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (a more fun flick than many give it credit for) then you may be well-advised not to hold your breath. However, with Blu-ray the successor to DVD, we expect a similar pattern to emerge, whereby over the years pretty much every film ever will hit the format eventually.
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Only if you want to – or are looking for an excuse to upgrade! If you could connect a DVD player to
the TV, you'll be able to connect a Blu-ray player.
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A Blu-ray player works almost identically to a DVD player, so if you can wrangle one of them you'll be
coasting with Blu!
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Not at all, any Blu-ray player will work perfectly for all the really important stuff without one. A 'net connection just allows extra stuff that can add to the whole movie-watching experience.
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Just buy a bag of popping corn from the supermarket and add heat then butter. If you're not
wanting to get that involved, buy a microwavable bag and get popping!
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10 Reasons Why to Choose Blu-ray
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Featuring up to 10 times the storage space of a DVD, with Blu-ray we’re talking detail, folks! All this extra space means that a picture on Blu-ray can look up to five times more detailed than a DVD – just as the filmmaker intended.
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With most new releases featuring the potential for sound that would give your local cinema a run for
its money in the oomph department, and older titles being remastered to sound better than when they were made, your ears are in for a sonic treat!
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If you're a fan of extras like documentaries and commentary tracks, Blu-ray is the format for you.
With the storage space Blu-ray offers, almost every release packs all manner of bonus bits and pieces, often many more than you’ll find on comparable DVD releases.
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Blu-ray isn't just for movie buffs. If you're serious about your TV series watching (and what better
way than to have them all ready at your beck and call?), you can pick up most of the popular series' looking simply marvellous on Blu-ray, with more and more older series' coming out all the time.
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Get out and experience the big wide world – from the comfiness of your own couch! Most Blu-ray
players provide internet connectivity, allowing you to access a world of amazing Blu-ray-only special features, including on-call movie trivia and even special events such as crosses to movie premieres!
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While once you had to go to the cinema to experience a movie in all its glory, with a Blu-ray system
you can now have a better experience without leaving your home! Think about it, a print of the film that's blemish-free (how many of them do you see at the cinema?), and the ability to immerse yourself in similar sound to the cinema, with up to eight channels pumping away. The only difference is you have to make your own popcorn!
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There are several dedicated Blu-ray players on the market, however there's also the Sony
PlayStation 3. As well as being a top-notch Blu-ray player, it's also a remarkably capable games machine at the cutting edge of gaming technology, with hundreds of games available. So, you can satisfy the family's movie buffs AND gamers, all with one smart little black box.
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You know how no matter how hard you tried you couldn't fit an LP in a CD player when they came
out? Forget such primitiveness! If you update to a Blu-ray player you can keep your entire DVD collection, as the machine will play them. Most Blu-ray players will also 'upscal' DVDs, which means it will make them look even better than they did on a standard DVD player.
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Often new technology has the sort of price tag that would make a millionaire sweat. Now that Bluray
is established, prices have plummeted – you can pick up a player for under $100 now! Meanwhile, the movies may have been expensive at launch, but prices have dropped so that often
you can pick up the Blu-ray for around the same price as a DVD.
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Often new technology has the sort of price tag that would make a millionaire sweat. Now that Bluray
is established, prices have plummeted – you can pick up a player for under $100 now! Meanwhile, the movies may have been expensive at launch, but prices have dropped so that often
you can pick up the Blu-ray for around the same price as a DVD.
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