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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has finally launched the first batch of Blu-ray discs that take advantage of Digital Copy for PSP. With this feature, the owners have both a PS3 and a PSP will be able to copy a portable version of a movie directly from a Blu-ray disc to Sony's handheld. Well, almost directly.

Surging Blu-ray Disc sales will fail to stem declining standard-definition DVD sales through 2009, but the global packaged media business will stabilize by 2010, according to Screen Digest.

DVD will be negatively impacted by the weak economy and the technology's fast falling pricing. Screen Digest notes that world DVD/Blu-ray unit shipments will continue to decline this year. Blu-ray shipments tripled between 2007 and 2008 to 67 million units, but the growth wasn’t enough to offset DVD declines. That pattern continues this year, said Screen Digest.

According to Digital Entertainment Group, an industry trade group, in the past of nine months of 2009, sales of BD players in the U.S. increased 13 percent over the same period last year. The U.S. accounts for a third of the world‘s 30 million players, which include PS 3 consoles. The market for BD players opened up last year after winning the standards war against the competing HD DVD format.

So what’s next? Possibly a link to another rising star: online video.

LG is one of the biggest names in home entertainment. Recently, LG has created a 1000 Watt Blu ray disc technology home theatre to make waves in the market. The instant access to movies and music on demand feature make it ahead of other models in the race.

Sharp just announced another Blu-Ray and HDD combo with the BD-HDS43, a mid-level Blu-Ray HDD combo with a single digital and analog TV tuners, coupled with a 320GB hard drive to store all your recorded video.

Qosmio X500 is the latest of Toshiba gaming laptop. Qosmio X500 holds an Outstanding multimedia features which includes rewritable Blu-ray drive and Toshiba’s Resolution+ video upscaling technology.

The list below is the top 5 Blu-ray ideal for any home theater system.

Most home theater fans have praised Blu-ray as being the only high-quality form for home movie viewing. Luckily, with the price of Blu-ray players dropping, Blu-ray disc price points are falling as well, making all of these following Blu-ray movie suggestions a budget-friendly purchase possibility for the holiday season.

The Dark Knight