BluRay struggling to take off [Article]

[vlad321]

naraku2099 said:

"However, Blu-ray's improvements over DVD are less pronounced and largely limited to a noticeable but far from extreme increase in picture quality, provided a big screen HDTV is used."

 

Clearly whomever wrote this watched a badly made blu-ray on a 20 inch 720p HDTV.

I have a 40-inch Sony Bravia 1080p HDTV and the picture is not just "noticeable", it's incredible.

I haven't had one person who was not simply amazed at the difference from a DVD. DVD picture is extremely inferior,

has bad color, bad contrast, blurry picture and often sound that never before did I notice was so awful.

Blu-Ray is a LARGER jump in advances than VHS to DVD was. The reason it hasn't gotten a hold on the

DVD market is because 1. It's more expensive 2. People realize you can't take full advantage without

an HDTV 3. People don't want to spend money to replace DVDs.

Alot of people don't realize how much more affordable Blu-Ray Discs, players and HDTVs have become

compared with when they first came out. Example: My brother bought a 32 inch 720p HDTV for less than $800.

Standalone Blu-Ray Players have gone down in price drastically. They're still higher than DVD players, but

you can pick up a good one for $200. As For Blu-Ray Discs, if you buy them off of eBay, the Amazon marketplace

and other places on the internet, you can find Blu-Rays for $19.99, new. I've even seen new Blu-Ray Discs

at retail stores for $14.99.

And in the end it's just an improvement over the quality of picture. That's not really a great jump in advancement at all, the jump between VHS and DVD was much more thana a clearer picture between the two. It was ease of use, ease of production, and the fact DVDs evetually made it as a staple to the computers where you could back up large amounts of data. The jump between DVD and bluray is just a better picture and more storage, big whoop. I think hardrives are like 14 cents a gig nowadays....