Best Buy getting much more confident about Blu-ray

[Reasonable]

Spankey said:

Reasonable said:

 

Get yourself to an Optician my good fellow.  And open your ears while you're at it!

Lossless sound is uncompressed and therefore losses nothing in playback.

As for visuals, sure, some cheap crap film isn't going to look that much better on BR, in fact it may look worse, but any film with decent cinematography looks much better (well, on a decent HD TV it does).  And as for films like 2001, Blade Runner, etc. they look sublime, heavenly and lovely (in that order too).

got BladeRunner myself

in a word, it's...godly.

I's nice to see that there's still hope for physical media in this world of digital entertainment, I just hope it'll last.

Downloads don't often come with artbooks.

Blade Runner BR for me represents why I'd buy a film vs rent - I really like it but also want to study it and know a lot about it, hence a package with amazing film transfer and sound and the best extras I've seen (particularly the 6 hour or so documentry covering, well, everything to do with the film) keeps me on physical media for titles like Blade Runner.  I do like the idea of the movie store to rent something I don't want to buy, and really I see the immediate future as a mix of easy to use online services to rent stuff coupled with very well put togehter packages on BR for the stuff you want to own, rewatch and find out about.