Blu-ray was announced in 2002 by Sony, Hitachi, Philips and other vendors, and the first recorders were sold in Japan a year later. In 2006, Sony's PlayStation 3 game console included a Blu-ray drive as one of its primary features.

Blu-ray players are slowly but surely making inroads into living room of people all over the world, and has recently made available updates for their line of BD-P1600, BD-P3600 or BD-P4600 Blu-ray players to support YouTube for free.

DVD was the greatest success in consumer electronics history until now. Following its 1997 debut, it took the format just a few years to completely conquer the home theater market previously ruled by VHS tapes. Before DVD even reached its 10th birthday, however, the electronics industry and the Hollywood studios began putting it out to pasture.

Sony’s latest Blu-ray player, the BDP-N460, will add for the first time, streaming video and audio, from Netflix, YouTube and Slacker.

The company does note however that regardless of what TV you have attached the wireless will work better with a Linksys WET610N Ethernet-to-Wi-Fi bridge.

Samsung's first dual function internal Blu-ray disc player, the SH-B083 COMBO, that reads Blu-ray discs and reads and writes to CD and DVD format discs.

The Samsung Blu-ray disc drive for PCs is available with capacities of up to 25GB for a single layer disc and 50GB for a double layer disc.The SH-B083 will be available in November in the U.S. through retail and online retailers. Pricing wasn't disclosed.

Despite being one of the first companies to stand behind the Blu-ray format, Apple refuses to offer Blu-ray playback to the Mac faithful.

Clearly the primary purpose of all Apple products these days is to drive you to the iTunes store. That's why there are no Blu-ray drives in Macs, no Blu-ray playback in iTunes 9, no hardware acceleration for non-Apple software in Snow Leopard and no Flash on the iPhone. Such features might encourage you to spend less money on the iTunes store. Recently, Apple finally caved in and added an FM radio to some of the new iPods.

As we known, the feature was announced in early 2008 , Sony said that was to be supported later that year, but Sony has now announced that “Portable Copy” will be coming to a selection of Blu-ray discs this November.

That brings a good thing to PSP owers. Movies that follow the updated Blu-ray protocol can optionally offer handheld versions of the movie to be copied off the disc for no additional cost.

Given the myriad of product models, it is increasingly difficult for first time buyers to make an informed decision. To help narrow your search, here’s a list of the Top 10 Blu-ray Players that is updated monthly. As individual needs and preferences vary, this list is compiled based on actual user ratings, search popularity and sales. Feel free to use this as a starting point to search for the blu-ray player that caters best to your needs.