£300 Blu-ray Test: Introduction

tech: £300 Blu-ray Test: Introduction

June 30 2008 | WilHarris

All this week on ChannelFlip Tech I’m going to be looking at Blu-ray technology. Now that the format wars are over and the format has won a decisive victory, more people are interested in buying into HD.

As the format has matured, prices are now starting to come down. So this week, I am looking at three Blu-ray players that cost under £300 - one from Sony, one from Sharp, and the last - possibly the most popular Blu-ray player around - the PlayStation 3.

One of the things that I have found the most confusing about the next-gen formats are the variety of audio standards. So to get some help, we went down to see Dolby in London to get the low-down - so watch out for that.

Many thanks to Dolby for letting us use their exceptionally nice demo room (complete with 50″ 1080p screen and 7.1 sound). Enjoy the show!

Wil

comments

Pat Seymour

June 30th, 2008 - 8:59pm

Nicest home cinema equipment around, at the start of the video you can see a game cube

WilHarris

June 30th, 2008 - 9:00pm

Haha, Wind Waker is the greatest! Would have liked to have tried out Wii sports on that nice screen though

Nick

July 1st, 2008 - 1:45am

you really have such a terrible job don’t you Wil…

must be hard having to play games and watch hd movies for a job

Dom

July 8th, 2008 - 9:36pm

What happened to the PS3 review?

colt

July 20th, 2008 - 12:00pm

i think that the blueray review was good but the ps3 has been out for a while now so i think that you should do a review on the ps3 it self comparing all the different models and the pros and the cons as it is good to learn about them and also i am thinking about investing in one my self so i would love to0 hear about you oppinion and i watch all of you podcast and has brought some of your well reviewed products like the blackberry pearl 8120 thanks hope to see the podcast on itunes