So Sony really got it right with Blu Ray

[Millennium]

Bboid said:

frybread said:

Ail said:

That, with price is one of the big reasons VHS never took off as a medium to sell movies to the mass market.

What's your source for this?  I'd double check it if I were you, because it's horribly wrong.

HDTV is a major step up from SDTV. On an interlaced SDTV screen it doesn't matter much if it's VHS, DVD or Blu-Ray. Like I said Blu-Ray makes sense for HDTV owners.

That's still just picture quality, something that has never sold a format on its own.

 

 

Do your self a favor and watch a BR movie on a properly setup full home theatre.  You will notice that the sound quality is astonishing.  The sound quality improvement is just as large, if not greater, than the improvement in picture quality.

Having done so: No. Just no. It looks and sounds a little better, to be sure, but not enough to justify spending the ludicrous amounts of money people do setting these things up. You're paying for an increase in sharpness that isn't even 2.5x and a barely perceptible increase in audio quality, and that just isn't worth what these companies want for it.