The media price war, which has seen dramatic price cuts in prices of baby and DVDs, has now spread to Blu-Ray discs.

If you are intending to buy a Blu-ray player, but they all seem so expensive and you do not know what you should be looking for. You worry for two reasons: firstly, Black Friday sales will bring Blu-ray players with low price points and we've conveniently complied the ten top-rated Blu-ray players to give you some shopping ideas.

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The forthcoming Blu-Ray release of Kurokami will be missing the Japanese track.The standard DVD release will be dual-language, but that's not going to be of much use to the quality-conscious fan who would vastly prefer the Blu-Ray version. Gia Manry of Anime Vice speculates that the strange omission of the Japanese track is motivated by the desire to stop Japanese fans from importing the US version, since the Japanese Blu-Ray will be much more expensive.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment (USHE) announced yesterday the launch of an array of enhanced iPhone and iPod touch-enabled features and social web-based offerings with the release of upcoming titles Bruno, Funny People, 9.

These innovations include the pocket BLU app, which offers iPhone and iPod users touch further enhancements to the Blu-ray experience, and social BLU, which offers Blu-ray users more ways to interact with their Facebook and Twitter networks through an Internet-connected Blu-ray player.

With U.S. DVD purchases continuing to fall off the cliff--movie disc buys were off 13.8 percent in 3Q2009--an increasing number of Blu-ray backers are looking at online video delivery as a needed shot in the arm for their business.

Some of the biggest companies backing the Blu-ray format for high-definition movies are hedging their bets by introducing players that can also show Internet video, which is making surprising inroads in the home-entertainment market.

The idea behind Blu-ray Managed Copy sounds good—it'll let you make one full-res backup copy of a Blu-ray disc, and studios are required to support it beginning next year. But needing brand new hardware is just the start.

LG decided to make this machine even better by adding an option for accessing Vudu movies!

What is Vudu? Here is what they offer.

There is a conference for everything and blu-ray technology is no exception.  Blu-Con 2.0 wrapped up last week at the Beverly Hilton.  The Digital Bits has a great summary of the event here.  The future is looking great for blu-ray technology.  A bunch of cool 3D info came out of the conference, here are some of the notable bits: