Blu-ray/DVD players, don't buy Sony.

Originally posted by sonhouse
What you say is true but there is one weakness of blu ray: Used as archives, it pretty much sucks because after a few years it starts to deteriorate from the outside of the tracks where the plastic shells meet, the outer layers then closer in succumb to weathering via humidity and pollutants in the atmosphere.

Not sure how you can overcome that problem, ...[text shortened]... itten on literal stone, a thousand years on you don't need an unavailable technology to read it.

Interesting, I didn't know about Blu Rays deteriorating like that. Does it also happen to commercial Blu Rays? I disagree that future technology won't be able to read them. Even if no more players and drives existed, the ability to make new ones would still exist. The question would be whether the data is worth reading and to whom, IMO.

Originally posted by sonhouse
I found out our old DVD players don't work on our new flat screen sets because the only video inputs were HDMI, the older DVD players only have RCA jacks and maybe optical outs. So I went to WalMart and bought a nice looking Sony DVD/Blu-ray player with internet wifi also. Get it home and found out the first 4 movies I stuck in would not play, giving a mess ...[text shortened]... the Sony and it started right up no problem.

Bottom line: Don't buy Sony DVD/Blu-ray players!

Last time I saw my Sony blue ray is was laying in pieces on my kitchen
table as my son had to take it apart to get the Blue Ray out of it since it
died. I did not replace it with another Sony, though I do have a lot of
different other Sony equipment that I've had for years.
Kelly

Originally posted by KellyJay
Last time I saw my Sony blue ray is was laying in pieces on my kitchen
table as my son had to take it apart to get the Blue Ray out of it since it
died. I did not replace it with another Sony, though I do have a lot of
different other Sony equipment that I've had for years.
Kelly

Most Sony stuff is great, like my Sony 2010 short wave radio, it set the standard for short wave portables, but they went overboard with the encryption on their blu ray players.