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The Dark Knight blows away Blu-Ray records

// December 11th, 2008 // fun

I don’t have my copy yet, but I pre-ordered The Dark Knight on Blu-Ray this past weekend and it’s now sitting at Best Buy waiting for me to pick it up.

Seems like I wasn’t the only one interesting in grabbing a copy. On the day it was released (Tuesday, the 9th), there were 600,000 Blu-Ray discs sold. That smashed the old record by Iron Man of 250,000.

Most of you know that I made one final “Mike” purchase before Lyla was born and that was a Playstation 3, which has a Blu-Ray player. I highly recommend this as the method to switch to Blu-Ray. It’s a great gaming system, the player is always one of the top rated out there, plus it has another cool feature called a web browser.

I usually don’t like watching shows on my laptop, because it’s small and means I’m probably sitting at a table somewhere, not on my comfy couch. But just recently I realized my PS3 has a web browser. So the other day, I went to Hulu.com and brought up episodes of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, went to full screen and BAM! I was watching streaming video from Hulu right there on my TV.

Very awesome. It makes a PS3 a triple threat in a way. Gaming, Blu-Ray and streaming video.

Seems like Blu-Ray is catching on, so maybe this Christmas is the time to jump in?

Also, if you haven’t seen The Dark Knight yet, we’ll be having a viewing party sometime I’m sure