Swapping your DVD collection to Blu Ray ?

Preferably, you generally get poor picture quality with an older player because its output is analog which is always a bit soft, which the tv then has to digitize, and then rescale, an ugly lossy process. Its better the player do the scaling while its decoding the picture and then send the pure digital signal to the tv. Some dvd players/bluray players do this better than others of course.
 
I wont be upgrading my DVRAB but I probably will be buying Blu-Rays soon - I own 1 Blu-ray boxset of Heroes series 1 as it was cheap. But I like to watch DVRAB on my laptop, so until I get a Blu-ray player in my laptop it will still be DVRAB for me. Especially TV shows I like but others in the house don't like (only Blu-ray player is PS3 in livingroom)
 
With several thousand titles on dvd I have no plans to swap everything to Bluray.
A huge amount are old British tv shows which would not benefit anyway.

Most of my Blu buying is films I already have on dvd but this is confined to real classics of the 50's to the 80's.

For example- I just bought Forbidden Planet and Evil Dead in the last week or two but I won't get The Breakfast Club or The Usual Suspects.

The exception was American Beauty which I did get as it's a particular favourite.

Of course if a brand new film is of interest I would never buy a dvd .
If the film is good enough to buy instead of rent then I want the best quality possible

I have Precious on rental - a title I would never buy
 
I rent a lot from LoveFilm and always rent the Blu Ray if available, even if it means a longer wait. Regarding buying, I am replacing my Pixar collection, will be replacing LOTR: EE and am looking forward to my triple drip for the Alien Anthology next month.
 
I'll keep buying DVD's as long as they keep selling them. I had a huge collection of videos, but then the DVD came along and I had to upgrade! I now have a large collection of DVD's, and I don't fancy upgrading them all. Luckily DVD's work on Blu Ray players so I don't need to upgrade yet!

I have 2 Blu Ray discs. The first is The Fourth Kind, which I only bought because I wanted to see what the Blu Ray quality was like. The quality was excellent, but I didn't enjoy the movie! The second is Avatar, which neeRAB to be seen in excellent quality. I won't be buying anymore Blu Ray's unless watching on DVD would ruin the experience.
 
People responding to this thread seem to think I said "will you be replacing ALL your DVD's with Bluray. I didn't.
I said will you be replacing ANY of your DVD collection.
If so, which ones"
 
I heard bluray was a just a flash in the pan. Eventually films will be sold and distributed digitally online and there will be no need for a disc of any kind.
 
my wife gives me a hard time if I duplicate formats. I try to avoid it.

only got about 10blu, plus band of brothers. Mostly titles i've seen cheap (under
 
I have loaRAB of VHS and DVD movies....mostly classics and blockbusters. I usually get rid of titles that I know will never come off the shelf for a review. I don't have a blu-ray player and prefer to wait until the price of the movies come down in price.

Mind you, by that time, there'll be some new format and Blu-ray will be obselete and I'll be playing catch up again :D

Truly, it doesn't bother me. So long as the movie is at least normal DVD quality, then I'm not fussed.
 
Ditched all my official VHS tapes in 1999 when I was able to get a pound or two for each of them.

Still have some VHS tv recordings that are unlikely to appear but even they are copied to dvd with the tapes in the garage
 
I've only really replaced a handful of movies I had on dvd with blu-ray

Those would be

The wizard of oz
gone with the wind
total recal (wish i hadn't awful transfer)
terminator 2
Predator.
 
When I first got my Blu-ray player, I started replacing some of my old DVD's almost immediately, films like;

Ghostbusters
The Goonies
Total Recall
Terminator 2
Robocop
2001: A Space Odyssey
etc.

But the more I did this, the more varied results I saw....some transfers looked good whilst others (notably the older films) looked only fractionally better than the DVD version (Total Recall!!!).

Although I'm uBer excited about BTTF trilogy and Alien Quadrilogy boxsets being released next month, I may just wait and see whether they're worth the upgrade...
 
I'm only going to replace some of my all-time favourites and films that are eye candy, sci-fi stuff mostly. But any future film purchases will be Blueray now as new releases are only about 2 quid more than a dvd.
 
Yea some people hoard for the sake of it.
Thats 83 days of music, 24 hour days...

The number of classic and must watch films keeps growing larger, oscar nominees etc, so its just better to rent.
 
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