I agree that Blu Ray is definitely better than regular DVD, but why buy them if you have children with portable DVD players that will not play Blu Ray discs?

Blue Ray is only good for home entertainment centers with TV's that can handle true 1080p (that is progressive scan at a resolution of 1920x1080) and a DTS-HD Master Audio capable surround system with 8 channels. That'll make full use of the BlueRay feature and of your equipment.

Otherwise I'd stick to DVDs they're just so darn convenient.

And cheaper! LOL Maybe when the kids get grown!

Are blue ray and dvds exclusive? As in, dvds won't play on blue ray and blue rays won't play on dvd players? I don't own a blue ray but was considering buying one, but I own way too many dvds to switch if the blue ray won't play them.

I believe that regular DVDs will play on the Blu ray players. My only concern was with kids wanting to watch movies on a trip and they do not make blu ray portable players.

You know what guys. Now that I think about it, it would completely silly for someone to build a portable blue ray player which would compact its high quality 1080 lines of video to just a few hundred.

Something tells me someone will still produce a portable blue ray player just for bragging rights.

They COULD do something very cool with a portable blueray player. A dual layer blueray dvd can hold 50 gigs of data which would equate to about 12 regular dvd movies. Or even more if it was compressed to fit the screen of the portable player without degrading its video quality. Conceivably you could hold 25 high quality movies in a blueray dvd but i digress.

that's exactly why I will not buy them, no point in it for me while I still have kiddos, lol