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Is a Blu-Ray player overkill for 1080p?

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By Jerombolo
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I'm thinking about getting a player but I don't know if it should be a blu-ray player as I'm only watching in FullHD and in 2D. What do you think?

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No, if you want to use physical media, it's not overkill.

DVD-Video can't handle FullHD and native 16:9 (only anamorphic)

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I'm thinking about getting a player but I don't know if it should be a blu-ray player as I'm only watching in FullHD and in 2D. What do you think?

Bluray is made for 1080p.... how could it be overkill? If you are thinking bluray's are 4k or something crazy let me tell you a secret. 4k video content only exists on the internet right now. Yes you should probably get a blu ray player. Make sure to get one with a good dvd upscaler. Anything from sony will be great. 

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Nope

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Bluray is made for 1080p.... how could it be overkill? If you are thinking bluray's are 4k or something crazy let me tell you a secret. 4k video content only exists on the internet right now. 

Okay, thanks :)

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So I should buy a Blu-Ray player? 

If you have Blu rays and want to be able to watch them, sure.

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If you have Blu rays and want to be able to watch them, sure.

I don't have any Blu-Rays yet

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I don't have any Blu-Rays yet

Bluray's players typically have upscalers that make dvd's look way way better. Bought a cheap lg bluray player and it stuttered when playing dvds, changed it out for a nicer wifi enabled sony one and it not only looked better with dvd's but it was also perfectly smooth playback. 

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Bluray's players typically have upscalers that make dvd's look way way better. Bought a cheap lg bluray player and it stuttered when playing dvds, changed it out for a nicer wifi enabled sony one and it not only looked better with dvd's but it was also perfectly smooth playback. 

That's cool :)

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Bluray's players typically have upscalers that make dvd's look way way better.

Good scaler are already built-in in most TVs.
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Good scaler are already built-in in most TVs.

I don't think you know what I am talking about. 

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I don't think you know what I am talking about.

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K one more for my ignore list.

Um okay. Didn't know that was something to get angry about. I was talking about dvd upscaling which is done on the bluray player not tv's. You can have the best kind of scaler in a tv but it can only use what the player is outputing. 

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Um okay. Didn't know that was something to get angry about. I was talking about dvd upscaling which is done on the bluray player not tv's. You can have the best kind of scaler in a tv but it can only use what the player is outputing.

Sorry, this makes no sense at all. It's no problem for the TV to upscale the uncompressed 480i/p stream which is outputted by the player.
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Sorry, this makes no sense at all. It's no problem for the TV to upscale the uncompressed 480i/p stream which is outputted by the player.

Most bluray players don't switch back to 480p output when you play DVDs. They output whatever resolution you set in the setup menu (same res that you use for watching blurays). That makes the player handle the scaling (say if you watch your blurays at 1080p).

If one wants the TV to handle the scaling, then 480p output would have to be selected before dvd playback is done.

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