Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I just moved into a new apartment and have been reading about all of the new power strips out there, especially the green ones. I was wondering if you had any suggestions about which "green "power strips are out there with decent joules ratings. And when I say green, I mean power strips that have the remotes or switches to turn off all electricity flowing to certain plugs and with at least 2 plugs that are always on. I was looking specifically at sub $50 because I will need two, but if that is not possible I could be convinced otherwise. Thanks!"
The only thing of concern is PQ. If it's good then I say go for it.
I agree. But then again, If you are the type to only buy a $100 Blu-ray player, then chances are you bought a cheap HDTV.
If watching a DVD, I'm sure you're going to take a massive PQ hit over the good upconverters. If you're watching bluray, then you're getting a 1080p uncompressed video with bitstream or LPCM soud. Digital is digtal. Do you notice a difference on your computer swapping one brand of DVD drive for another? No, because it's just a digital transport.
t3yf5g,
you took the words right out of my mouth. plus, i've had a chance to play with some cheap players like the sylvania nb500 and honestly, they looked as good as the sony, samsung, and panasonic players from last year (with modest load times!). it dropped the ball on DVD playback though...
Blu-ray video is still compressed, be it MPEG-2, AVC, VC-1 or any variant of those.