In Which I Shill for Blu-Ray

I've tried to be unobtrusive about my Amazon links -- while still having them be available, in case anything I say fills someone with the burning desire to instantly own whatever-it-is -- but, every so often, I might just dump in a steaming lump of pure commerce.

(Like right now, for example.)

Amazon is having a sale on Blu-Ray DVDs -- are they still DVDs if they're Blu-Ray? or does some other noun apply? -- which they'd like people to know about. Some stuff is up to 50% off, which sounds quite nice. The sale runs through midnight (Pacific time) on August 29th, so there's a bit less than a week to take advantage of it. I don't have a Blu-Ray player, so my interest is purely theoretical at this point.

But, if you do own a Blu-Ray player, and want to get things to watch on it at a discount, you might as well click here and see what Amazon has. (From a quick look myself, I see mostly recent movies and some TV shows -- Mad Men, Pirates of the Caribbean, No Country for Old Men -- in the 83 things on sale.)

And does it utterly destroy my credibility as a shill if I say I hate the term "Blu-Ray?" It's difficult to type, it's weirdly affected, and it doesn't seem to mean anything.