While shopping around for a Blu-Ray disc player, I read threw a string of reviews on some of the more popular models in the market and discovered there were a lot of buzz on the Sony BDP-S350 1080p Blue-ray Disc Player. The Sony Blue-ray player has tones of favorable reviews all over the internet and is the best-selling model on many online stores such as Amazon.com.

Out of curiosity, I went to a store nearby to take a closer look at the Sony BDP-S350 1080p Blue-ray Disc Player. The first thing I noticed about is was its new super slim and sleek design. It was much smaller than its predecessors with just over 2″ in height and about 9″ long. This is a big improvement over the previous models.

With the advent of the latest 3D technology leading to a customer demand for movies in 3D on DVD the Blu-ray industry, led from the front by the Blu-ray Disc Association, have been working flat out to finalize a standard for delivering stereoscopic (3D) video in high definition on a Blu-ray disc to be played on a Blu-ray 3D DVD player. This is now in place and in the hands of Blu-ray player manufacturers and DVD disc producers so everything is set for the next stage of the 3D revolution to start.

High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is state-of-the-art connection technology, allowing uncompressed sound and video signals to transfer from your source equipment directly to your high definition television (HDTV). Instead of a bunch of tangled-up connections like you have with DVI or with component video (those red/green/blue jacks), HDMI completes your audio and your video transfers using just one small jack.

So how does this all affect you, as the buyer of all of this complicated technology? What this means is that you will only need to purchase one cable, not several as you did in the past, to connect your HDMI source equipment (like a Blu-ray disk player, Xbox 360, Wii, HD cable or satellite box, new A/V surround receiver, etc.) to your HD television.

This is CNET’s review on Samsung BD-P1600 1080p Blu-ray Player. For information on the best Blu-ray player this year check out www.squidoo.com

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For the past couple of years HD DVD and Blu-ray technology have been competing to become the industry standard format for next-generation DVDs.

Toshiba’s HD DVD system arrived in the market in April of 2006, the same year that Sony launched its Blu-ray system.

In February 2008, Toshiba announced that it would cease production of its HD DVD players and recorders - effectively making the Blu-ray system the new industry standard.

There were a number of key deciding factors in Sony’s ultimate victory - one of which was Sony’s decision to ship their PS3 console with a built-in Blu-ray player. To date over 10 million PS3s have been sold worldwide - compared to only one million HD DVD players.