Blu Ray lets me down again

[CDiablo]

Now I've never bee a fan of these new fangled HD formats of the past 2 years which is documented somewhere on these forums. I think the video looks slightly better and Im not an audio guy so I cant appreciate the sound.I've also learned from my feelings on the Blu format that I am blind, an idiot, a fanboy(of things that are not Blu?), that my tv is not good enough and that the colors are not calibrated correctly and all the Blus I watch are some of the low quality Blu rays....Either way I still at one point thought that it would be worth buying Blu copies of movies that I love such as the Star Wars films and some of my horror favorites.

So on my Christmas list I put down John Carpenters "The Thing" on Blu Ray. Its a great Sci Fi horror movie and I suggest anyone that enjoys horror to check it out. It is one of the single greatest presentations of practical effects of all time. My buddy got it for me and I was happy to get it

Visually its slightly better than the DVD, I compared them with both my 1080i upconverting DVD player and the PS3 itself in 1080p. I expected that after the letdown of watching other Blu rentals(I usually rent on Blu for big movies). The way I see it is DVD=90% and Blu=%100. Now the biggest letdown is..... get this..... it had LESS special features than the DVD(and the HD DVD release). The Blu has one commentary with Carpenter and Kurt Russel. The DVD(released in 2004) has an 80 minute documentary(I love my horror movie documentaries, Im a huge practical effect fan) the Russel/Carpenter documentary and an interview with the fx wizard behind most of the main props Rob Botten. Now one can only imagine that if those features werent in the DVD the bit rate could be upped due to the extra space akin to the Columbia Tristar "Superbit" releases.

 

WTF is this. you pay $10-$15 more and they cant even throw the extras on it. Blu Ray just keeps getting less and less appealing. As long as DVD is around I cant see me owning more than 5-10 Blu's in the formats lifetime.