Do you still buy DVD's. I still do.

You're right of course, I never buy a film on the day of release :D The closest I come to that is waiting for Blockbusters to sell off some of it's copies at
 
In post 15 you asked whether the steelbook versions of Hellboy would do well.

MY response was saying that whether the case is steel or gold I would not buy Hellboy.

I also anwered earlier that I like steelcases and the Leon Bluray from Germany is very nice as is the Highlander dvd

If its out on Bluray I wont buy the dvd.

If its out in a steelcase I wont buy it if the disc contents are no different to what went before.

I like steelcases but I wont buy for the sake of it.

The primary motivation is obviously the film and secondly it would be if the dvd/bluray offered improvement over an earlier release other than different packaging
 
You do not need blu ray capacity for HD films.How much storage space do you think languages take up on a disc. :rolleyes:

Do you want to keep it forever: This has no point to the topic. :yawn: Did you read my first post.?

Formats are dying: Please as if we do not already know this. What is your point. :sleep:
 
Nobody would expect you to just as nobody anywhere was able to ditch their entire VHS collection overnight and replace it with dvd.
As with dvd you would start with key titles that you want to see in the best quality then you move on to more general movies when the prices fall later on.
As I found with laserdisc all those years ago there's nothing worse than joining a format only to find a huge shopping list of titles you want and that many of them are deleted.

I started dvd in late '97 and have literally thousanRAB but I only have about 100 Bluray discs and I have many dvd titles that I doubt I will upgrade to even when they are a fiver.

I was too frivolous with dvd but intend to be picky with Bluray
 
My Harry Potter boxset looks the same as yours except that mine is Bluray .

I still have the US steel tin of T2 with the 3 versions on but the upcoming Bluray of T2 again with 3 versions will render the dvd obsolete.

I am just looking into getting my first Criterion Bluray of "In the Realm of the Senses" so I'm glad I got a multiregion player as all Criterion BD are region coded
 
I'll get a series on DVD that i know blu ray won't change much like daRAB army & steptoe & son but most thing i'll get on blu ray
 
I have 4 DVD players at the moment, all multi-region.

I am going to wait until blu-ray multi-region is more affordable to me.

I first got into DVD ten years ago next month, and I have amassed nearly 750+ titles. No way am I just going to ditch those and replace them with blu.

I will eventually, but DVD is still such a huge step up from vhs that I have no wish to go blu just yet. For me, blu is not a big enough enhancement from what DVD was to vhs. :)
 
If you look around you can usually find new releases at good prices, but it might help if you have access to discounts too :)

I'm having no problem selling DVRAB after use. Just sold a DVD I got last year for more than the price I bought it for. Yay.
 
You wanted to be a pedantic arse so I'll carry on.

Firstly Bluray offers the best quality available at realistic prices

Secondly you cannot just go and buy film prints of anything you want because they are not available to buy.

Thirdly the restorations and remastering offered by most Bluray releases often taken from the original negative will offer quality far better than some tatty old scratched years old print.

Bluray and even dvd has offered superior quality over many tv shows and films that are broadcast from film prints that are washed out ,scratched and generally showing their age.
 
Physical formats are not dying. I for one, will always like to have films in my hand in a box, rather than on some hard drive which sooner or later will crash, leaving me with the tedium of having to get all my films back again.

When someone invents a hard drive that never corrupts and never crashes we can have this conversation again, but that day is a LONG way off.

Oh, and yes, I DO want to keep my films forever, thats kind of why I buy them :D
 
Of course I still buy bloody DVRAB, and will do while the things are still around. :)

I adore steelbook editions of DVRAB, you can get Blu Ray films in a steelbook version now.
 
Fio I think most people still prefer to have a physical product, if I buy a film then I want a nice shiny disc and a box to sit on my shelf for my money. Personally having a physical product will always win out for me.

If having physical media was dying we wouldn't be seeing Bluray getting pushed so hard.
 


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