redspear said:
See here is the difference I will not say that this isn't a product for millions of others just as much as I will not say it is. A lot of people will buy it for the newest and greatest but it has nothing to do with the highest video quality but as an upgrade. If it was only quality that mattered we would all be using tube amps and listening to records but that is not what drives electronic media it is market satuaration and hype. If all you cared about was resolution and image quality may I suggest the movie theater it blows blu ray out of the water. BR is a succesful product but it is not a modern wonderfall of killer must own goodness. A lot of people on this site play upscaled games and do not even know until someone analyzes the video game and posts pictures to prove it and still after that many still believe they are playing 1080P. If some one gave them a game that was actually 1080P some would recognize it most won't and the company would plaster it all over the place and people who couldn't actually tell the difference before would suddenly get a WOW factor even thogh they may be playing it on a 720P TV it doesn't matter. I own a PS3 and I have seen BR I will not deny that it looks better than a DVD and I also will go as far to say that the difference is also noticeable on an SDTV in terms of color but shines more on an HDTV. However i bet you if I were to run an experiment and go out and replace all BRs with upscaled DVDs and sold them less then a quarter of the peopel who bought it would notice the difference. Where if people went out and looked at DVD after VHS over 80% would notice. The upgrasde is not even in the same league. The thing that allowed for VHS to hang around as long as it did was not price but instead the ability to record. Now people have collections of DVDs they may start getting players but they lke to lend out movies and share movies and as such it is a pain to rebuild your collection. BR does not have a clear path it just won't be laser disk......Oh btw LD was a great format that was very noticeable too people seem to have forg=etten them today and we still use Beta for production.
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I agree the difference from dvd to bd isn't as big as vhs to bd, but what do you want? to stay with dvd for ever? continually upscaling until you can notice it looks terrible? BD is just an advancement in technology, and it's going to be beaten by another advancement someday, why fight it so much. I like advancing technology. And about the movie theatre, i also agree it is a lot better, and i do see movies all the time but i can't spend $10 everytime i want to watch a movie again, and they don't stay there for ever so BD gives me the closest quality i can get to theatre at the moment.
As for your quality, i'm not sure about amp tubes, but records aren't the best sound you can get. I know people will argue to the death thinking that it is for some reason, so i don't like getting into it. Let's just say it's a matter of opionion to apease the masses.
