PSA: HD to Blu-Ray

[unixronin]

Wired has a how-to on converting your HD-DVDs to Blu-Ray.  You'll need a fast Windows machine, a HD-DVD drive, a Blu-Ray burner, 30-40GB of available disk space, a whole bunch of software, and a whole lot of patience.  But check your costs first; you may be able to just buy a Blu-Ray copy of the movie cheaper than you can buy a blank Blu-Ray disc ($15-$25 per blank for single-layer write-once media; dual-layer writeable Blu-Ray discs aren't available yet).

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty good summary, yeah. And it's hard to find a decent VCR any more. Most of the models left on the market are complete crap.

Don't feel like you have to burn rubber on the way to the store to get a shiny new Blu-Ray player, either. I'd wait a few years for the platform standard to stabilize (translation: for Sony to lay off the creeping featuritis) and player prices to drop. Expect to see a lot of movies released on dual-format disks, too — a DVD layer and a Blu-Ray layer on the same disk containing SD and HD versions of the same movie.