Convince me why I should go Blu - ray?

Sorry, haven't got either of them.

I did do a firmware upgrade when I got it, don't know if that would help.
You'll have to Google it though. I may have found the link on the AV Forums if I remember rightly.
 
I know 35mm has nothing to do with aspect ratio. As I mentioed that is all to do with widescreen. See I know that much at least.
I know the 35mm is to do with the film in some way. The minute you threw in 16mm and 70mm straight away my brain has gone into whoosh mode again.
The "average person" doesn't look at or care about that kind of thing.
Lets break it down really simply using widecreen and their ratios. The average person picks up the case of the video/DVD/Blu Ray and looks for one word. "Widescreen" They know what the word means, they may even have a widescreen TV. If on the box it says what the ratio is they don't even register it. Just the word "Widescreen."
The next day they are telling someone they bought the film.

Is it in widescreen?
Yes.
What ratio is it?
What what?
The ratio, is it 1.85:1 or 2.39:1?
The person looks blankly thinking what the hell are you talking about? You're talking gibberish throwing meaningless numbers at me.

That person's knowledge and understanding stretches as far as the word widescreen and the fact it means legnthways on the TV.

Not being one to give up.

Well does it have black lines at the top and bottom?
Yes
How thick are they?
Erm....?
This person doesn't measure them and doesn't give them that much thought. Then they get this question

Are the black bars really thick and the film looks squashed up between them like a letter box or are the black bars quite narrow at the top and the bottom so you can see a lot of the picture?

They can mentally picture that and answer it. They can't do that with meaningless (to them) numbers.

If you and I are sitting in the pub and you say you bought the Godfather and when I ask is it any good, if you say it's ok but the pictury is fuzzy, I can imagine a fuzzy picture. If you say it's fuzzy as it's from an 35mm print but if it was from an 70mm print it wouldn't be, you would have lost me.
To paraphrase the lyric of an Thomas Dolby song, "You're blinding me with science." I was good up to the word fuzzy the rest is whoosh!

My brother works in health and safety. Whenever we meet up he talks about his job quoting this regulation and that one. I just say yeah, oh, and right, whilst sipping my pint. I haven't a clue what the hell he's going on about as I'm not in that line of work, got the qualifications or done the courses, so again goobledygook and so it's whoosh!
 
Someday...... when you are old and grey;)

Japan tried analog hdtv decades ago for instance, so they have a habit of rolling out stuff long before its ready or viable. So if this follows the same time line, yes, in 30 years you'll see 4k everywhere;)
 
There's been upgrades for some players but I'm not sure if the Curtis one affected the Snow White problem.

Someone else who had the Curtis were told by Disney that the problem only affected the Curtis so they would not do anything about it

Makes you wonder how Curtis can do a player for
 
I am glad to see I am not the only person with a VCR still! Most people look at me oddly when I admit to still having one. I will admit I don't use it that much anymore but I have had it for over 15 years now and I have never had any problems with it, apart from when you used to put those codes you got from tv listings pages in (I think it was called video plus) that never seemed work properly...
 
Most movies that are remastered these days go through a 4K Digital Imaging film restoration process which means that if a new home entertainment format with 4 times the definition of BD came out, most movies that were originally fimed in 35mm or 70mm would have the potential to be a huge improvement over BD.
 
Yes but you'd have to have a 4k tv, while it might come out eventually, unless its super backwarRAB compatible it won't happen anytime in the near future because broadcast is not going to move to 4k for decades. Broadcast isn't even in 1080p. Never mind the bitrate shenanigans.
 
I'm a Film student at uni so this kind of stuff is pretty much second nature to me, so i'm sorry if it's still confusing to you, but is the difference between 35mm and 70mm really that hard to grasp? It's just the size of the film used to capture the film images, with 70mm obviously being the larger of the two and thus able to hold more visual information than the 35mm or the 16mm film. I know your average consumer doesn't know, or particularly care, about the size of the film that was used, but when discussing Blu Ray transfers it's very relevant as it can impact the quality of the image.
 
The main reason is the better picture and and sound quality, so finding other reasons kind of defeats the arguement.

Couple of things to consider:

High Street availability: buying Blu-ray on the highstreet can be a pricey business, with HMV the only option with a big catalogue, although Asda do have a decent stock of chart titles. For the majority of Blu-ray buying you have to shop online.

Pricing: The price difference between blu-ray and DVD is getting smaller all the time, especially for new releases. e.g for the recent release of 2012 there was only
 
It's worth mentioning that Blu-ray can be a bit hit-and-miss with "restorations" of old films. Some look amazing (such as the Final Cut of Blade Runner), but The Godfather, Reservoir Dogs and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre look appalling.

I would pay close attention to customer reviews, otherwise I think DVD has done most of the remastering job already.
 
Very true. Blu rays are really not that expensive even when compared to DVRAB. New DVRAB are only a few pounRAB cheaper than a new Blu ray release. I'd rather spend
 
My TV is full on HD...I have a Philips DVD player that upscales through the HDMI socket..
If someone provided a blu ray player,that had a USB socket for playing avi for about
 
You don`t have to....Blu Ray players will play DVD`s.....and of course you have the option to play BR discs as well if you so wish.....As stated in a previous post I`v just replaced my 12yr old DVD player with a BR player.....I know I will continue to buy DVD`s but I now have the option to watch BR discs as well

Is it worth upgrading....well a half decent BR player will cost you
 
'The Godfather' collection has excellent PQ:confused: It's grainy in places, but that's the actual film grain that you're seeing, and i'd rather see that than have an annoying DNR job done on it like the 'Evil Dead II' Blu Ray where everyone looks like wax. It's still better than the DVD, but Ash does tend to look like he belongs in Madame TussauRAB, lol.
 
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