HDTV Almanac - Netflix Helps Blu-ray Make Gains

alfredpoor · Post by **alfredpoor** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:00 am

From the “How’s That Again?” Department: The market research firm NPD Group has released information from recent studies that indicates Blu-ray technology is starting to take hold and make up some of the ground lost by DVD sales. The company found that nearly half of all Sony PlayStation3 users watched at least one Blu-ray movie [...]

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film11 · Post by **film11** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:37 pm

Very ironic...particularly since Netflix is not gung-ho regarding Blu-Ray.

jacknoah · Post by **jacknoah** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:40 pm

Very interesting, but be careful. If you are hard of hearing (baby boomer) like me, Netflix does not support closed caption on ANY blu-ray player with Internet streaming function. I just returned a Toshiba blu-ray player because of that. I have a Sony blu-ray/Google TV unit that does not have that problem. If you want to stream Internet movies and need closed captioning, call Netflix first to see if they have provided the "hooks" for you to display CC on the system you want.

J. Noah

ccclvib · Post by **ccclvib** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:38 pm

Sorry, was going to dispute the previous post, but re-read it and found the same thing I was going to say.