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

Yes 37 59.68%
 
No 25 40.32%
 
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Xoj on 21 February 2010
Ajescent said:
480 doesn't look that bad does it?

on a non upscaling dvd player yep. even the ones that does.



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NJ5 on 21 February 2010
jneul 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.

oh please spare the BS a bluray movie is about £2 more expensive than the DVD version where I live (if you look in the right place)

there are no more excuses bluray is now affordable.

finally once you go bluray, you never turn back, lol.

Unfortunately I'm not planning to pay you a visit, otherwise I would be buying some movies where you live. As it stands, I'm limited to buying movies where I live :P

But I'm checking some random movies at Amazon UK, and:

- The Dark knight - BR is 2x more expensive

- Transformers ROTF: BR is 3x more expensive

- 500 days of Summer: BR is 41% more expensive

So unless I was really unlucky in the movies I checked, you seem to be wrong.

 



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puffy on 21 February 2010
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.



 

NJ5 on 21 February 2010
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.

 



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jneul on 21 February 2010
NJ5 said:
jneul 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.

oh please spare the BS a bluray movie is about £2 more expensive than the DVD version where I live (if you look in the right place)

there are no more excuses bluray is now affordable.

finally once you go bluray, you never turn back, lol.

Unfortunately I'm not planning to pay you a visit, otherwise I would be buying some movies where you live. As it stands, I'm limited to buying movies where I live :P

But I'm checking some random movies at Amazon UK, and:

- The Dark knight - BR is 2x more expensive

- Transformers ROTF: BR is 3x more expensive

- 500 days of Summer: BR is 41% more expensive

So unless I was really unlucky in the movies I checked, you seem to be wrong.

 

Anyway it's probably my bad because I buy my blurays at Asda, and they seem to have overpriced DVD's there, and the Bluray is always around £2 more expensive(normally comes in at the £12 mark), but still you are complaining about the dark knight being around £10, it is not that expensive, unless you are a teenager and have no money that is....

Edit: it does not matter, dvd's are half of the price of bluray's at the moment, but last time i bought a bluray it was a £2 difference.



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nordlead on 21 February 2010

If you have a large HDTV, you should have switched to netflix and blu-ray last year ($150 players) and netflix is actually affordable (almost everyone I know who watches movies uses it).

But, if blu-ray wants serious adoption, they need to drop the $40 movies down to $20 new. I looked at movie prices the other day, and just laughed and walked away.




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nordlead on 21 February 2010
Xoj said:
Ajescent said:
480 doesn't look that bad does it?

on a non upscaling dvd player yep. even the ones that does.

no, it doesn't. I have a non-upscalling DVD player on a 55" 1080p TV. Guess what? The TV does the upscaling for me. So unless you have a craptacular TV it'll look better than that. The most reasonable explanaion on how that image was created was a non-upscaled 480i image was taken, blown up, and then shrunk (maybe even in MSPaint )




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puffy on 21 February 2010
NJ5 said:
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.

 

You did, but that lack of durability manifested itself primarily as poor picture quality not any other way.



 

arsenicazure on 21 February 2010

What about the audio aspect.. how good is DolbyTrueHD? A huge step up from 5.1/ DTS?



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hsrob on 21 February 2010
NJ5 said:

No. BR movies are still too expensive.

Blu-Ray gives a bit better image, but not enough to justify buying a new movie player and more expensive movies.

PS: Gotta love applying a blur filter and calling it "Standard DVD 480i".

(btw, DVD is 480p not 480i)

 

I enjoy my DVDs in 576p :P. That opening comparison is ridiculous.  If 480 anything looks that bad on your TV the problem isn't with the DVD format, it's with your TV.

Good DVDs on a good DVD/TV setup still look great, but of course not as shiny as Blu Ray.