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How many blurays do you have?

<20 137 59.31%
 
20-30 16 6.93%
 
30-40 14 6.06%
 
40-50 8 3.46%
 
+50 club 17 7.36%
 
+100 club 14 6.06%
 
+200 club 17 7.36%
 
+500 club 8 3.46%
 
Total:231
Turkish on 01 September 2012
TWRoO said:
Turkish said:
TWRoO said:
Turkish said:

I still dont own any documentaries, I need to find those Earth and NatGeo ones.

Yeah something like that I can understand wanting better resolution for, I'd love to see some 1080 Blue Planet.

For films as long as I can tell what's going on I don't think resolution matters except for crap like Transformers/Avatar.... If I can't enjoy a film at 480 it's not going to make much difference at 1080. (Hell I watched a film last night on YouTube at 360p... I do tend to look for 480 res when streaming but in this case YouTube was my only option)

I can't even watch a dvd anymore, [picture] quality matters to me. I have the setup. I wanna watch it in the highest quality and lossless audio. There are even differences among blurays itself, some releases are better than others. Fight Club 10th anniversary edition is a lot better than the first release.

Well obviously (although "can't watch a DVD anymore" is very much an overstatement.... hell if you have a decent setup you must be able to upscale your DVDs to 1080 anyway... which is what is happening with almost all your PS3 games from 720 or sometimes lower native resolutions)

The expense to upgrade just isn't worth what is (to me) a minor picture improvement... though I also don't subscribe to the huge TV in a small room idea (supposedly the perfect viewing angle is 30 degrees, I don't like having to switch looking from one side of a huge TV ot the other when the focus subject changes). The distance I am from my TV in my bedroom would require a minimum 32"TV for me to notice any benefit over 720p... and in the living room it would have to be 50" plus.
The former wouldn't actually fit in the place I have for my bedroom TV (I could fit just up to 26", though my curtain would obscure the left hand side... currently have a 19")
Again in the living room the current TV position wouldn't allow above 32" if I want to open the door to the hallway... we could go up to 50" over the fireplace, which I wouldn't mind as a TV position as long as it's safe (ie protected from the heat when the fire is on... I think it would be ok) except that the TV would be even closer to the viewer so it would be too big for my tastes. If I had my way a 1080p 40" would be perfect above the fireplace for me... I would be hard pressed to notice the difference between 720 and 1080 without getting up off the couch or maybe if there was a side by side comparison and I concentrated. (but without setting up 2 TVs I'm not going to have a side by side)

As it is 480 (or it may actuallt be 576i given this is Europe... bot sure if PAL standards crossed over when the analogue signal dropped) is fine for now in the living room until it breaks.

I really can't. I find it weird to watch a dvd. The bitrate of a 50GB bluray is phenomenal. I'm kind of a video and audiophile. I only listen and watch to the highest quality possible. Thats why I buy cd's and have FLACs. Even anime, I get them in 10bit whenever possible.



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walsufnir on 01 September 2012

owning 7 blurays and hate the system itself. i already *bought* the f***** disc but get a piracy warning and unskippable trailers before i can watch the movie.
a few weeks ago i wanted to try bd-live - it took about 5 minutes till the time-warner-site was rendered on my tv but still i couldn't use it because i didn't have a time-warner-account! people, are you crazy out there?!
the industry does everything to push me to mkv's - select, play -> done. there is *no* benefit to get from the original disc (to me).
btw, bad movies are also bad movies if the picture is 1080p.



Barozi on 01 September 2012

48 the last time I counted.
Mostly cheap collections I got from the UK.
Batman, Back to the Future, Matrix, Bourne etc.



DeduS on 01 September 2012

~170 - I didn't even know I had that many. I stopped buying DVDs a while ago, so most of my purchases are BluRays now, which results in a steadily growing collection. It will still take quite a while for my BR collection to surpass my DVD collection though.



 

TWRoO on 01 September 2012
Turkish said:
TWRoO said:

Well obviously (although "can't watch a DVD anymore" is very much an overstatement.... hell if you have a decent setup you must be able to upscale your DVDs to 1080 anyway... which is what is happening with almost all your PS3 games from 720 or sometimes lower native resolutions)

The expense to upgrade just isn't worth what is (to me) a minor picture improvement... though I also don't subscribe to the huge TV in a small room idea (supposedly the perfect viewing angle is 30 degrees, I don't like having to switch looking from one side of a huge TV ot the other when the focus subject changes). The distance I am from my TV in my bedroom would require a minimum 32"TV for me to notice any benefit over 720p... and in the living room it would have to be 50" plus.
The former wouldn't actually fit in the place I have for my bedroom TV (I could fit just up to 26", though my curtain would obscure the left hand side... currently have a 19")
Again in the living room the current TV position wouldn't allow above 32" if I want to open the door to the hallway... we could go up to 50" over the fireplace, which I wouldn't mind as a TV position as long as it's safe (ie protected from the heat when the fire is on... I think it would be ok) except that the TV would be even closer to the viewer so it would be too big for my tastes. If I had my way a 1080p 40" would be perfect above the fireplace for me... I would be hard pressed to notice the difference between 720 and 1080 without getting up off the couch or maybe if there was a side by side comparison and I concentrated. (but without setting up 2 TVs I'm not going to have a side by side)

As it is 480 (or it may actually be 576i given this is Europe... not sure if PAL standards crossed over when the analogue signal dropped) is fine for now in the living room until it breaks.

I really can't. I find it weird to watch a dvd. The bitrate of a 50GB bluray is phenomenal. I'm kind of a video and audiophile. I only listen and watch to the highest quality possible. Thats why I buy cd's and have FLACs. Even anime, I get them in 10bit whenever possible.

I assume FLACs are something to do with lossless audio? Another thing I don't see the point of unless you have a lot of spare cash, a proper speaker setup done by a sound engineer (unless you have a perfect box room with no furniture) and play your music at a ridiculous volume.

Still, each to their own.



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Turkish on 01 September 2012
TWRoO said:
Turkish said:
TWRoO said:

Well obviously (although "can't watch a DVD anymore" is very much an overstatement.... hell if you have a decent setup you must be able to upscale your DVDs to 1080 anyway... which is what is happening with almost all your PS3 games from 720 or sometimes lower native resolutions)

The expense to upgrade just isn't worth what is (to me) a minor picture improvement... though I also don't subscribe to the huge TV in a small room idea (supposedly the perfect viewing angle is 30 degrees, I don't like having to switch looking from one side of a huge TV ot the other when the focus subject changes). The distance I am from my TV in my bedroom would require a minimum 32"TV for me to notice any benefit over 720p... and in the living room it would have to be 50" plus.
The former wouldn't actually fit in the place I have for my bedroom TV (I could fit just up to 26", though my curtain would obscure the left hand side... currently have a 19")
Again in the living room the current TV position wouldn't allow above 32" if I want to open the door to the hallway... we could go up to 50" over the fireplace, which I wouldn't mind as a TV position as long as it's safe (ie protected from the heat when the fire is on... I think it would be ok) except that the TV would be even closer to the viewer so it would be too big for my tastes. If I had my way a 1080p 40" would be perfect above the fireplace for me... I would be hard pressed to notice the difference between 720 and 1080 without getting up off the couch or maybe if there was a side by side comparison and I concentrated. (but without setting up 2 TVs I'm not going to have a side by side)

As it is 480 (or it may actually be 576i given this is Europe... not sure if PAL standards crossed over when the analogue signal dropped) is fine for now in the living room until it breaks.

I really can't. I find it weird to watch a dvd. The bitrate of a 50GB bluray is phenomenal. I'm kind of a video and audiophile. I only listen and watch to the highest quality possible. Thats why I buy cd's and have FLACs. Even anime, I get them in 10bit whenever possible.

I assume FLACs are something to do with lossless audio? Another thing I don't see the point of unless you have a lot of spare cash, a proper speaker setup done by a sound engineer (unless you have a perfect box room with no furniture) and play your music at a ridiculous volume.

Still, each to their own.

Yeah I have a 400 euro headphones from Beyerdynamic.



cusman on 01 September 2012

I stopped buying blu-rays after Vudu and Amazon Instant Video starting offering streaming movies.



SvennoJ on 01 September 2012
TWRoO said:
Turkish said:
TWRoO said:

Well obviously (although "can't watch a DVD anymore" is very much an overstatement.... hell if you have a decent setup you must be able to upscale your DVDs to 1080 anyway... which is what is happening with almost all your PS3 games from 720 or sometimes lower native resolutions)

The expense to upgrade just isn't worth what is (to me) a minor picture improvement... though I also don't subscribe to the huge TV in a small room idea (supposedly the perfect viewing angle is 30 degrees, I don't like having to switch looking from one side of a huge TV ot the other when the focus subject changes). The distance I am from my TV in my bedroom would require a minimum 32"TV for me to notice any benefit over 720p... and in the living room it would have to be 50" plus.
The former wouldn't actually fit in the place I have for my bedroom TV (I could fit just up to 26", though my curtain would obscure the left hand side... currently have a 19")
Again in the living room the current TV position wouldn't allow above 32" if I want to open the door to the hallway... we could go up to 50" over the fireplace, which I wouldn't mind as a TV position as long as it's safe (ie protected from the heat when the fire is on... I think it would be ok) except that the TV would be even closer to the viewer so it would be too big for my tastes. If I had my way a 1080p 40" would be perfect above the fireplace for me... I would be hard pressed to notice the difference between 720 and 1080 without getting up off the couch or maybe if there was a side by side comparison and I concentrated. (but without setting up 2 TVs I'm not going to have a side by side)

As it is 480 (or it may actually be 576i given this is Europe... not sure if PAL standards crossed over when the analogue signal dropped) is fine for now in the living room until it breaks.

I really can't. I find it weird to watch a dvd. The bitrate of a 50GB bluray is phenomenal. I'm kind of a video and audiophile. I only listen and watch to the highest quality possible. Thats why I buy cd's and have FLACs. Even anime, I get them in 10bit whenever possible.

I assume FLACs are something to do with lossless audio? Another thing I don't see the point of unless you have a lot of spare cash, a proper speaker setup done by a sound engineer (unless you have a perfect box room with no furniture) and play your music at a ridiculous volume.

Still, each to their own.

You don't need a sound engineer to hear the difference. I can hear the difference between mp3 and cd in the car. The clarity in higher frequencies and surround is very different.
I also noticed a difference when I changed my ps3's music output from the default 48khz to 44.1/88.2/176.4. Music is sampled in 44.1khz, converting it to 48khz introduces artifacts that you can hear. No ridiculous volume needed, avoid it actually, you won't hear the difference while you are blasting your ears.
I wish 96khz mixing would become more comon for blu-ray. Akira's lossless 24bit 192khz surround track sounds phenomenal. Sure the human ear can't hear such high frequences (I probably can't hear anything above 20khz at my age) but the extra resolution allows for a much cleaner mix that my amplifier adjusts to simulate the sound of a full size movie theater. Also the harmonic frequencies and timing between surround channels are much more precise allowing for better placement and interaction between sounds.

You do need a quality amp with 196khz 24bit dacs to get the full benefit and some quality speakers. TV speakers don't cut it.



SvennoJ on 01 September 2012
TWRoO said:

Well obviously (although "can't watch a DVD anymore" is very much an overstatement.... hell if you have a decent setup you must be able to upscale your DVDs to 1080 anyway... which is what is happening with almost all your PS3 games from 720 or sometimes lower native resolutions)

As it is 480 (or it may actuallt be 576i given this is Europe... bot sure if PAL standards crossed over when the analogue signal dropped) is fine for now in the living room until it breaks.

As you said in your other post to each their own. Yet one of the first hd-dvds I bought, Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, showed a huge difference between my dvd version and the HD version, both in clarity and even more so in color reproduction. And that was on a 32" HD ready CRT tube with 600 lines of resolution. It didn't even support 720p, ran in 1080i. Plus it was one of the earlier movies on HD-DVD which has half the bandwidth of blu-ray.

No amount of upscaling can hide the 4 to 7 mbps mpeg2 video stream with 360x240 color resolution (quarter of 720x480)



TWRoO on 01 September 2012
SvennoJ said:
TWRoO said:
Turkish said:

I really can't. I find it weird to watch a dvd. The bitrate of a 50GB bluray is phenomenal. I'm kind of a video and audiophile. I only listen and watch to the highest quality possible. Thats why I buy cd's and have FLACs. Even anime, I get them in 10bit whenever possible.

I assume FLACs are something to do with lossless audio? Another thing I don't see the point of unless you have a lot of spare cash, a proper speaker setup done by a sound engineer (unless you have a perfect box room with no furniture) and play your music at a ridiculous volume.

Still, each to their own.

You don't need a sound engineer to hear the difference. I can hear the difference between mp3 and cd in the car. The clarity in higher frequencies and surround is very different.
I also noticed a difference when I changed my ps3's music output from the default 48khz to 44.1/88.2/176.4. Music is sampled in 44.1khz, converting it to 48khz introduces artifacts that you can hear. No ridiculous volume needed, avoid it actually, you won't hear the difference while you are blasting your ears.
I wish 96khz mixing would become more comon for blu-ray. Akira's lossless 24bit 192khz surround track sounds phenomenal. Sure the human ear can't hear such high frequences (I probably can't hear anything above 20khz at my age) but the extra resolution allows for a much cleaner mix that my amplifier adjusts to simulate the sound of a full size movie theater. Also the harmonic frequencies and timing between surround channels are much more precise allowing for better placement and interaction between sounds.

You do need a quality amp with 196khz 24bit dacs to get the full benefit and some quality speakers. TV speakers don't cut it.

Well a cars speakers are generally placed where they are best already, what I meant was with different room sizes and shapes if you don't put home speakers in the right place it sounds odd when you move about the room.

However I can't tell the difference between CD and MP3, hell on my old laptop (which had limited space) I ripped some of my music to play at 96kbps and could only tell the difference if I played it on the main living room speakers (I usually listen with earphones)