HDTV Almanac - Netflix Helps Blu-ray Make Gains

Started by alfredpoor • Jun 13, 2011 • 4 posts

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#1 Jun 13, 2011 at 1:00 pm

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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#2 Jun 14, 2011 at 1:37 am

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

#3 Jun 14, 2011 at 3:40 am

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

#4 Jun 14, 2011 at 7:38 pm

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