Blu-Ray Buyers?

I buy all my films on Blu-ray and the greatest thing about them is that I can say "sorry I only have it on Blu-ray so I can't lend it to you" with people thinking your a mean ar*e hehe.

I hated lending things out because people just don't seem to have the ability to look after things that ain't theirs.
 
I've only ever listened to one commentary all the way through and that was Goldeneye on ld.
Since then I've only listened to them selectively at certain points as I rarely have time to watch a film all the way through twice
 
Thats because there is a huge amount of material that is not suitable for Bluray , like virtually every British tv series made before 2005.
Anything made on tape will not gain from Bluray and an awful lot of content does not need an HD release.
They are releasing the Michael MacIntyre standup shows on Bluray soon and although I like him and I like Bluray it's not the sort of thing I would upgrade from the dvd's I have.

Had it come out on Bluray at the same time as the dvd I would have gone Blu then.



I'm guessing you've never seen Bluray in action.
An upscaled dvd is still sd .
Upscaling simply means the picture is more palatable on an HD display , it is nothing like a genuine HD picture.

For the OP - I never buy dvd's if there is a Bluray option too .
People always slag Bluray off by quoting
 
I think there was a time when I was ill and I just sat there listening to them, christ that was boring :p

I'm not anti Blu or anything though, it's clearly superior to DVD.
 
Dvd will fade, it is just a matter of time. The installed base of hdtv's is growing by leaps and bounRAB, bluray players get ever cheaper. Look at any walmart in the us and they will have walls of hdtv's and bluray players and isles now dedicated to bluray, same with frys, and target, and that is a mainstream indicator. There are a few 10-15 dollar blurays at walmart on sale, but not enough, so yes, there is still some time to go before there are value 5 dollar blurays like with dvd. That being said, the momentum is there, when the resolution of bluray is 5-6 times that of dvd, the difference is undeniable. Watch say toystory 3 or how to train your dragon on dvd instead of bluray and you will have a poorer experience, hanRAB down. While the prices on media are still a bit high, rental fixes that quite nicely.
The uk lags a bit, after all other countries had hd broadcasting like a decade before the uk, but the big indicators in the us show the way.

Now the exceptions do not prove anything. There are always people who fail to upgrade anything, whether its people still on vcr's/couldn't program them anyways, or people who can't be bothered with hdtv or anything else. They always exist, but have always been irrelevant to the market. Those are the opt out folks, and they have never mattered.

If you want to see the clear superiority, just google up avsforum threaRAB by xylon showing screenshot comparisons. There are loaRAB. One example
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1010547

This is the level of ubiquity...
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/5631/walmarthdtvclearance041.jpg
 
Another reason I like Blu-rays is that, remember Region Coding on DVD, you know, we're Region 2, US is Region 1, Australia Region 4, etc. Blu-ray only has 3 Codes and even then, which is what I like, barely any studio puts Region Locks on the Discs anymore, there are some studios that do, I believe Fox still Region Lock, but many studios, they just don't bother, which is great when importing TV Show boxsets from the States, not only do I get the show early, but I also get it in HD since there's like a cat in hells chance of stores over here selling them!
 
People also have short memories. Early dvd players were 500 dollars. Tv's of that era were horrible as well, the average person probably had a 26-27" crt, if that, even the most basic and greyish looking plasma edtv of that era cost thousanRAB. The connections were horrible as well, most tv's of the era when it came out had composite type connectors, component and svideo were still rarer..it was a long long time ago. Back when pc's needed decoder carRAB to play back dvd, and some people bought those as a cheap solution. While vhs was so much worse that the case was strong for dvd, don't pretend adoption was that quick. Itonly seems that way once you forget the long road to adoption, when players became cheap, that is when it really took off. Add the improvement in tv's and it was helped on its way.
 
Bluray is let down by the High Street where prices are often ridiculously high and they won't attract the impulse buyers they are aimed at.

Some new releases have temporary deals in the High Street to match online prices but they dont last long.

It's not hard to find online Blurays cheaper than some places charge for dvd's - although not on every single title.
 
I still like DVD I am now a blu ray guy. I will now rarely ever get DVRAB. I think there good quality but blu ray are just all round great for me with the Audio and visual. The extras as well are much better on a blu ray.
 
lol I was just clearing out my loft and came across my old VHS collection! I'm being forced to throw them because lets face it, I'm never going to use them again and the most I would get for them is about 10p if that! Shame though. Some really good movies there, all with HQ VHS and DTS Sound lol.....can't believe we used to buy video's. I remember spending
 
They really didn't.

Everybody realised it was a step up from VHS, the step from VHS to DVD is massive compared to the step from DVD to Blu, it isn't simply about picture and sound quality, it was logistics and ease of use as well which made DVD, DVD offered many things other than simple picture and sound quality over VHS, Blu doesn't.

I have no doubts Blu will stay around, at least until the next version of HD comes out, I have my doubts it'll ever reach the mass market like DVD did and still does.
 
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