Embracing blu-ray

I stopped buying DVDs last year. I got my Blu Ray player and HDTV this year and am selling all my DVDs if they have BR versions. 90% of the Blu Rays I buy are around a tenner if you either wait a month or two after release, or grab them as part of deals like Tesco were doing for Avatar: Collectors Edition or the Toy Story 1-3 boxset. I got both Nolan Batman films for £14. Matrix Trilogy fluctuates but has been around £14 for all three films. You just have to be savvy. AVForums has a brilliant classified section as well where people buy/sell movies too, easy to get a few steals on there.

Couldn't go back.

Also old movies can look amazing, it just depends on the transfer. Things like 2001 look very nice.
 
I'm visually impaired as well (cataracts and only use one eye at a time really) and I'd say upscaled-DVD>VHS is more of a gap than BR>upscaled-DVD.

I haven't really embraced BR myself, my wife still buys all her films on DVD and I generally don't buy much but when I do it is normally on BR, not always though due to price. I don't think I've really seen anything on BR that has made me go WOW!, some Harry Potter film I saw looked decent, but apart from that....

To be honest I reckon with a lot of films if you just sat me down and told me I was watching a bluray but it was actually upscaled DVD I wouldn't notice. Whereas VHS I would easily spot.
 
Most of my friends and family moved over to blu ray this year, as and when they got HD tvs and not one has said I'm going back to dvd because they're cheaper lol

MW
 
i buy a mixture of both, i dont feel that some of the films are worth buying in bluray, the qualitiy just aint worth it, but if you get a true bluray then it aint worth the extra money
i also wont bother replacing dvd's for bluray if they weren't film in true hd whats the point
 
seek said:
This.

Movies and music on CD/DVD's etc have long since been made redundant in terms of practicality.

Overpriced and completely unnecessary.
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Is it just me that actually likes having the physical discs for my films? There's something more satisfying for me in having all the boxes on the shelves for some bizarre reason!

In terms of BR vs DVD, I tend to only buy BR now unless the film is only available on DVD. Having said that, I haven't replaced any of my DVDs with BRs yet.
 
Mad old tory said:
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Is it just me that actually likes having the physical discs for my films? There's something more satisfying for me in having all the boxes on the shelves for some bizarre reason!
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Not just you :)



Plus you can then do fun (retarded) things like tell a story with them:



And then hyper motarded:

 
I switched to bluray a few years ago with the PS3. I don't buy many films but they do look much clearer and details than DVDs.
 
I've been using Blu-Ray Disks for almost a year now, having a BD player last Christmas and then a Playstation 3 in January and I haven't bought a DVD since, the picture quality is obvious to me and I'm not exactly an audio visual snob. I've heard a friend before say that she couldn't see the difference between DVD and Blu-Ray but I had to bear in mind that:

A. Most of her stuff is pirated (:mad:) and;
B. She has a rubbish TV.

Not sure if anyone here has a problem telling the difference, I know certain movies are better Blu-Ray conversions than others but even watching something like Goodfellas makes me appreciate how much better quality the picture is when compared to a DVD.


Zairs said:
i buy a mixture of both, i dont feel that some of the films are worth buying in bluray, the qualitiy just aint worth it, but if you get a true bluray then it aint worth the extra money
i also wont bother replacing dvd's for bluray if they weren't film in true hd whats the point
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A lot of movies are filmed in way higher quality than you'd get on a BD.
 
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I've strayed away from BR and moved to digital downloads via AppleTV. The link below pretty much sums up my main reason. I just want to get straight to the movie, which digital downloads do - not sift through unskippable screen after screen of unrelated material.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120915/5246060-5828683-thumbnail.jpg

Yes I know the differences between the two, so don't run that past me. I just cba with BR's typical 'crap' that plays for minutes on end before I even get to the useless transitional menu screen. By that time I am well into my dinner!

Disney films are the worst iirc. So much promotional junk that you can't skip. If there is a quality benchmark film that deserves a BR purchase then I'll buy it, IE Aliens Anthology.
 
i buy a mixture of BR and dvd, depending on the film, if it a film i really want or really enjoyed at the cinema i will go for a BR, it it just a average film, or i am just buying it to complete a collection or the BR version is a bad transfer i will go for the dvd.
the biggest different between the BR and dvd i find isn't the picture quality buy the sound quality
 
Depending on what film you use as a reference then the difference between Bluray and DVD can be lightyears.

Starship Troopers is one of those examples.
It looks good on VHS
It looks great on DVD
Its Amazing on Bluray.
 
Kainz said:
Disney films are the worst iirc. So much promotional junk that you can't skip. If there is a quality benchmark film that deserves a BR purchase then I'll buy it, IE Aliens Anthology.
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Buy a decent player, I have not had to watch a Trailer/anti Piracy message for over 10 years.
 
atpbx said:
Buy a decent player, I have not had to watch a Trailer/anti Piracy message for over 10 years.
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I wasn't aware that BR was out for 10+ years. I also think a Panny BD35 more than qualifies for a decent player, despite it's age.
 
Kainz said:
I wasn't aware that BR was out for 10+ years. I also think a Panny BD35 more than qualifies for a decent player, despite it's age.
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Why would you assume that was what I meant?

I was clearly including DVD's as well.

Ahh yes, I see what you did there, clever enough to do that, not smart enough to research buying a player that lets you skip through the trailers. ;)
 
I like trailers, the anti piracy ****es me off though especially as you've actually bought the film.

MW
 
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atpbx said:
Ahh yes, I see what you did there, clever enough to do that, not smart enough to research buying a player that lets you skip through the trailers. ;)
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Yes because those players actually existed at the time the BD35 was around. No wait, the ONLY good player at the time was the PS3 as the rest of the players were overpriced Sony units.
 
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