How do you know what type of Blu-Ray dvd player to get...?

Question

is there one that can also play international movies as well as USA movies(I live in the USA).

Is there a specific number model or brand I need to look for?

Does it matter what kind of digital widescreen tv you have?

Answer 1

I would recommend holding off on getting a Blu-Ray DVD player.  At the moment Blu-Ray is still coming out with new features and the current models of Blu-Ray DVD players are not upgradable.  Upcoming features will be in the profile update version 2.0 which adds more memory (from 256MB in Profile 1.1 to 1 gigabyte) to a player and requires Internet connectivity via an Ethernet port. BD-Live also translates to online content, such as games and movie merchandise shopping.

Both Bonus View and BD-Live players will be available to consumers by fall possibly in October 2008

Sony has stated that only upgradable Blu-Ray dvd player that will be upgradable to Profile 2.0 that is on the market is the Playstation 3 otherwise consumers are urge to wait until better Blu-Ray DVD players are available.

Answer 2

ps3 as it is upgradeable via updates and is one of the best in the market,also u can play games,there will also be this online store on the playstation network that will allow u to rent movies in the future

Answer 3

You have to find out (from the Wiki page attached) which region a player can play BrD disks from.  

Region codes

Regions for Blu-ray standard      A: Americas; East and Southeast Asia; U.S. territories; Bermuda.      B: Africa, Europe, Oceania; Middle East; Kingdom of the Netherlands; British overseas territories, French territories; Greenland.      C: Central and South Asia; Mongolia, Russia, and People's Republic of China.

Regions for Blu-ray standard[43]

     A: Americas; East and Southeast Asia; U.S. territories; Bermuda.      B: Africa, Europe, Oceania; Middle East; Kingdom of the Netherlands; British overseas territories, French territories; Greenland.      C: Central and South Asia; Mongolia, Russia, and People's Republic of China.

Blu-ray Discs may be encoded with a region code, intended to restrict the area of the world in which they can be played, similar in principle to the DVD region codes, although the used geographical regions differ. Blu-ray Disc players sold in a certain region may only play discs encoded for that region. The purpose of this system is to allow motion picture studios to control the various aspects of a release (including content, date, and in particular price) according to the region. Discs may also be produced without region coding, so they can be played on all devices.

This places the countries of the major Blu-ray manufacturers (Japan, Korea, Malaysia) in the same region as North America. As of early 2008, about two-thirds of all released discs were region-free.[44]

In the Blu-ray region coding system, the United States is placed in region A while regions B and C are used for countries which can experience localization delays before U.S. titles are officially released. The opposite, though, is sometimes true and a few new titles such as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Running Scared were released in certain European countries before the U.S. release.[45] In response to the DVD region system, multi-region and region-free DVD players became dominant in certain markets; certain Blu-ray player models have been modified to allow for playback of Blu-ray discs from Regions A and B and DVD discs from Regions 1 and 2.[46]

Answer 4

Most players can play any DVD  - if the DVD is purchased in the US, it's most likely Region 1 and will play on your player.  If you get a "Region 0" or "Region all" player, it'll play all regions.  Still, it doesn't matter what you get!