who else collects blu-ray movies.

[SvennoJ]

oldschoolfool said:

SvennoJ said:
I'm a big fan of blu-ray. I have around 330 (counting box sets as one), 3 pre-ordered, and about 20 sitting in my Amazon watch list. I've pretty much upgraded my top 50 movies to blu-ray, some I've quadruple dipped, Laserdisc -> DVD -> HD-DVD -> Blu-ray, or multiple DVD versions to Blu-ray.

I watch a lot of movies multiple times and I also like the extras and commentary tracks. I've build my own home theater to enjoy it all, 1080p projector, 92" screen, heavy duty surround system. Money well spend, considering I'm into my 4th projector lamp already, at 2000 hours per lamp.

Disney keeps their prices high, although sometimes you can find a deal. It's worse with Ghibli blu-rays, when Disney finally brings them here they're $34. My favorite movie is out on Blu-ray in Japan, but it costs upto $80 to import. I'm waiting for the Hong Kong international version from play-asia.com which will still be about $40. (Waiting for Disney to publish it takes another year)

I wish I had that kind of setup,but I would'nt know how to set that up in my little apartment. plus I live in a 4 way apartment buliding and I could only imagine waking up my neighbors. lol   I'm always trying to find new blue-ray movies,but I'm just to picky. they have to be movies that I really like. I'm always searching for older movies. Although,I'll rent the newer movies just to see if I like them enough,to buy them. 

A good setup still sounds nice at low volume. Although I have a free standing house, it has kids living in it too lol. Can't play the Conjuring at full blast with my 2 and 4 year old sleeping a floor above :/ You could use a pull down screen, but it's a lot of hassle. A dedicated room is much better suited. Image quality with a projector depends mainly on ambient light and room reflectiveness. You probably don't want to paint your living room ceiling black, with dark red walls and dark floors.

I like older movies as well, some look amazing on blu-ray, Lawrence of Arabia, Ben Hur, 2001, Alien, The last emperor, Baraka, Akira, The shining. Criterion collection movies are nice but expensive :(

Or did you mean couple years older? That's where the deals are.

I'm trying to cut down on my spending, but it's hard. Watching streaming quality on a projector is such a turn off compared to blu-ray. It sucks there are no rental places around here anymore.