Is 2010 Finally The Year To Swich Over To Blu-ray?

[NJ5]

puffy said:

NJ5 said:
IMO, many people mistakenly think that people upgraded from VHS to DVD due to image quality... they didn't.

People upgraded from VHS to DVD because DVD offers extra features (documentaries, subtitles in several languages etc), durability, menus and ease of use (no more rewinding). Picture quality was also a factor, but a small one.

Blu-Ray over DVD only offers better picture quality. Most people don't care, certainly not enough to justify buying a new player and 30-50% more expensive movies.

Picture quality and picture degradation were very high on the list of reasons to move to DVD

If you can remember, VHS tapes had severe degradation issues and the picture always had snowiness on the top or bottom due to this degradation. Sure extra features were important to but don't discount picture quality.

I did mention durability. Lack of durability was what caused that degradation on VHS.