Blu-ray Players & Home Cinema
Just as DVD blasted VHS out of the water with its massively improved vision and audio quality, and extra flexibility, Blu-ray is now starting to overtake DVD as the usual home cinema format. Many of us already own HD-TVs, and if you want to use their high-spec, then you should invest in a Blu-ray player to really make the maximum of them.
Blu-ray discs have more than six times the capacity of DVDs, and can so contain much more photos and at a much greater quality. While DVDs had a max vertical resolution of 576 pixels, Blu-Ray discs can hold a huge 1080 pixel high image, displayed in full up to sixty times per minute. This is what is thought of as 1080p, and should be standard on the Blu-ray players you find. Along with an enhanced color handling system, this guarantees that you have a smooth, spotless picture that is as close to a cinema as you can get at home.
They not only have an improved picture, but Blu-ray players offer even greater quality of sound than before, with now even more surround sound channels present, and support for up to date Hi-D audio formats such as Dolby TrueHD.
