Blu-Ray Buyers?

Right, well I'm not sure as I rarely bother with new releases so I don't know how the studio's are doing things these days, I would say better special features come down to the studios trying to encourage Blu sales, rather than a benefit of the format itself, if that makes sense.
 
Soundbox answered this in another thead. Apparently it's because of the Tax rise so is on a tight budget.

I've got loaRAB of old VHS tapes in the garage. All the 007 films upto The World is Not Enough, Star Wars and loaRAB of others that are just collecting cob webs.
 
I don't think it will fade before Bluray does.
Firstly the market for tv on dvd is massive and possibly larger than that for movies now , and apart from US shows and very recent UK tv nothing else is suitable for Bluray anyway.
I think dvd and bd will co-exist .
While the uptake of Bluray players will increase this does not mean that people will stop buying dvd's completely.



Don't be so sure.
There may only be 3 regions but the key US market is still a different region to us.
While 70% of US Blurays are region free there is nothing set in stone and those companies that do use coding produce a mix of coded and uncoded.

You are only safe with Universal, Warner and Paramount as they don't use coding at all.

Fox have changed from locking every title to being more selective.
Their catalogue titles are often region free although their Bond discs were locked which was strange as the UK Bond discs were region free.

Although its not as much of a requirement as it was with dvd the best option is a multiregion Bluray player
 
Well with universal releases a special UControl mode is enabled which allows you to activate picture in pictur whilst the film plays. Cloverfield has a special investigation mode which plays the film whilst learning facts about the film as it plays. And I know Inception is getting a special extraction mode edition and way more extras than the DVD
 
Bluray extras are often in HD , usually not on a separate disc , often runs as PIP along with the film and much more will fit on a Bluray than a dvd.
 
Well I've decided to do what others do. Films I love and have meaning to be, I will buy on Blu-Ray, like Elm Street, and horror movies and movies filled with special effects.

Movies that I don't mind and want a copy of, like Creep or say Fallen, I will keep them on DVD and not upgrade. It's a treat to see them upscaled.

When I first watched Elm Street (1984) remastered and upscaled on DVD, I was suprised and overjoyed, the colours of Freddy's jumper were defined now, where's everyone used to think the stripes were black and red, now they were definate green and red, you can clearly see. You can also see his face clearer and brighter, so to see it on Blu-Ray will be exciting.
 
He's talking about burtons batman, and I think that might have gotten a cheap and lazy transfer which is something no one should support with money.
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No, google seems to show reviews saying the pictures not that bad..not reference quality, but not awful either. so I dunno what he's going on about.
 
LMAO, you know me too well! I have not lent one Blu-ray since I bought my player, infact I only know about two people who watch Blu-ray, everyone else I know just can't be bothered or they simply can't tell the difference between that and DVD.

For me at the moment I buy both Blu-ray and DVD, for any "BIG" film that contains alot of action etc then I would opt for the Blu-ray release, but if it isn't and only available on DVD then I would buy the DVD. For me I bought Batman (1988) on Blu-ray, as a great film it is it really didn't transition well onto Blu-ray and I may aswell have just bought the DVD.

The only DVD's I've swapped onto Blu-ray are Toy Story 1 and 2, Casino Royale and Life of Brian. With regarRAB to LoB I bought quite an early DVD release of the film, where as by now the DVD was scratched and it was only in 4:3.
 
It's massive, sure but the Tv on bluray is already starting to creep on dvd in the states. Maybe the uk is behind but in time you will be dragged along, the fact is most prime time shows have been hd for years now in the states and so will make for great bluray. The folks left buying dvd will eventually be like the folks left buying any other obsolete tech, they will fade with time, the last vcr user took a while to get the message, I'm sure there are still a few today. It doesn't mean they are still relevant.

The big sale items like BBC planet earth and such are on bluray, so its not just the us tv...
 
I thought the Blu Ray was ok, not perfect but still better than the DVD.
Batman Returns is the better of the two with a very good transfer.
 
I don't understand blu-ray really. The original movie if made in say, 1990, wasn't filmed with HD cameras. So is it all artificial when transferred?
 
I always assumed that movie film had a resolution superior to blu-ray given the size that it is blown up to in the cinema.

I would have thought that most films providing they haven't deteriorated would be vastly superior on blu-ray without requiring any artificial enhancements.

I'm probably wrong though.
 
Nope, you are right, which is why old films like the wizard of oz can look brilliant in bluray. With good restoration of course. Even old tv shows like startrek the original series now look brilliant restored on bluray. Things shot on dv like 28 days later sadly look like crap forever.
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Film has to have its resolution spread over dozens of feet of screen, that is a tall order. 1080p isn't really enough to project that size, you can see the pixels. Good digital film projectors now run at 4k, not 1080p. Film easily has more resolution than bluray, bluray is only 2 megapixels after all, and the digital cameras we use to replace "film" are far more mp than that.
 
My love affair with regular DVD is yet to come to an end personally. It's a format I can see still going for quite some time yet, much like VHS did.

Blu Ray's good I suppose, but for me I've already said to the missus that the next movie format I want to see personally is format-free. No discs or cartridges or whatever. We're already some way towarRAB that I think with PC's, but there's a way yet before it becomes something viable in the living room.
 
You seem unaware that the the US tv industry is completely different to the UK and its nothing to do with shows shot in HD.

US tv shows as far back as the 50's were all shot on 35mm film so they are all suitable for Bluray with the exception of the 10 year glitch between the late 80's and late 90's where series were edited on tape.
These will require additional work - but the bulk of everything else is ready for Bluray even though it was not shot with HD in mind like recent US shows.

British tv on the other hand has very little suitable for Bluray thats not been made in the last few years.

With the exception of filmed shows like The Avengers and ITC shows like The Saint the Bluray market for vintage UK tv is nil.

As there is so little that will give full hd quality they are likely to try and push 16mm material too and they are starting with Robin Of Sherwood but 16mm does not deliver the HD that most people will expect and an upgrade from dvd on that material is very much open to debate

So we're not going to see Upstairs Downstairs or any other taped shows on Bluray anytime soon

For this reason alone , dvd releases will continue for a long time while movies on Bluray will get more common
 
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