What are the most important features to look for when comparing blue ray players?
Blu-ray Players: What To Look For Updated March 2009 High definition extends to audio as well. Though Dolby Digital and DTS formats have been the standards of DVDs and HD television programming, high-resolution audio formats like Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA are lossless and deliver “studio-master” quality sound. Most Blu-ray players can pass high-resolution audio via bitstream to audio/video receivers, but only some of the latest receivers have the needed decoders. Players with their own decoders can pass high-resolution audio to any A/V receiver that can accept audio via HDMI — and those are much more common. A few can do the same via multichannel analog outputs as well. * Consider standard-definition performance. Blu-ray players can also play standard-definition discs, but not all of them play these DVDs equally well. That’s something to consider if you own a large collection of regular, standard-definition DVDs. * A 24 fps frame rate reduces image distortion, but not all televisions
