I refuse to pay for a DVD unless it is loaded with physical extras (not ones on the disc, think Criterion Collection) because they are too easy to pirate.
Upscaled DVD's look good, but the color and many other things just don't compare when you get down to it, especially on a bigger screen. That doesn't mean that upscaling is something you shouldn't take advantage of though I use both regularly.
I refuse to upgrade from DVD to Blu-Ray if either the movie wouldn't look that great anyways or if the picture on the Blu-ray is sub-par.
If you are paying more than $25 for a Blu-Ray, you are spending way too much. I get most of mine for $20 or as low as $10-15 when there is a good sale.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
