Or already had it ? Blu-ray continues to grow in leaps and bounds, and has far surpassed DVD player sales in same amount of time when first available. We even saw players under $100 on Boxing Day (mine from 2 years ago: $450 on sale!).

A few months ago, a collective of online Blu-ray reviewers got together to make a list of their top Blu-ray discs released so far, so if you are looking for that wow-factor with you new player, here is that list, all available to rent at Happy Bats. I will add a few of my own picks at the end.

I would easily add to this list the two ‘new’ James Bond films, “Casino Royale”, and “Quantum of Solace”, as well as Disney’s “Pinocchio”, Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest”, “How the West was Won” (complete with option to watch in “Cinerama” mode, how it was originally screened),  “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”, “Iron Man”, The Police’s reunion concert “Certifiable”, David Fincher’s “Fight Club”, Danny Boyle’s “Sunshine”, the new “Star Trek” movie, and the fantastic “Mad Men” and “Lost” series.

With very few exceptions, everything looks better on Blu-ray. And the quality of them keeps improving as the format keeps growing. Happy Bats jumped in with both feet two years ago, so we have a very large collection to choose from, and are adding new releases every week.  And with rumors of the Indiana Jones films, the Alien Quadrilogy, and the Back to the Future Trilogy being worked on for release in 2010, Blu-ray is the way of the future…the way of the future….the way of the future…