If you ever pause a DVD movie you will see how crap the quality really is especially during action or high detail sequences !.
Pause blu-ray though and you could frame it and hang it on a wall as a perfect still picture.
There is no noticable motion blurr caused by over-compression to be seen.
Blu-ray compression is better than DVD and with 5 * the storage space it allows for full cinema quality playback (many movies are shot in 1080p ).

I hate dvd :P Blu Ray ftw Dude go hire movies from Blockbuster :D Our Blockbuster in Au is getting more blu ray space :D Soon there will be only one :D

I didn't have a first. I had already purchased 3-4 movies by the time we got our XBR4, so I just watched clips of Underworld 1/2 and Kingdom of Heaven.

But yeah, the first experience truly is phenomenal. :D

I know that a Blu-Ray player upscales standard DVDs but I'm curious as to how much. I have over 700 or 800 DVDs and i'm sure as hell not about to replace them all, maybe just a few. So if you havea great HDTV and a Blu-Ray player, how good will DVDs look? Figure if 100% is the score for the best Blu-Ray disc and 0% is the absolute worst as in VHS or something, where on average would DVDs score?

And serious answers only please. So if you say 0% or something like that, you lose credibility.

dvds look a hell of a lot better with PS3 up convertion A HELL OF A LOT BETTER.

Yer my PS3 is actually better for playing back DVD's than my stand-alone DVD player is. Up-scaling and probably more importantly progressive scan - component colour or HDMI connection (and whatever else they do) gets the maximum available detail available from the DVD and onto my projector or 1080P monitor.

Yes Up-scalling DVD players are better than normal DVD players as they use HDMI and or  component outputs to give a better signal to the display.

Comparativly a profesional VHS cassette player is better than a normal VHS player but it's still not aas good as good as a DVD player. And a DVD will never look as good as Blu-ray.

Comparing blu-ray to DVD is much like comparing DVD to VHS tape each one is better than the last technology.

But I would not go out and repurchase a movie in blu-ray unless I really liked a particular film and wanted the full cinema quality version and other bonus extras they tend to add when they do a re-release ie extended edition, wide-screen etc.

New releases forget DVD go for Blu-ray if you can - the price difference is minor if any( $29AUD vs $39AUD usually) for a HUGE increase in visual detail , wide-screen, often better sound and more extras.

Expect blu-ray to cost the same as DVD soon when that happens there is no question -Buying DVD is like buying an old VHS tape movie IMHO.

Blu-ray and 1080p is as good as it gets - many movies are now shot in 1080P or 2K format so blu-ray provides the exact same visual quality you get in a cinema.

CEO of TVPredictions:

"If I had to rate the picture quality, with Blu-ray being a 10, the upconverting DVD player is a 6 and a standard-def DVD player is a 4.

In other words, if picture quality matters to you, the high-def DVD player is the way to go."

The PS3 is an excellent Blu-Ray player and excellent at upscaling DVDs as well.

In order of Visual quality
8% VHS tape player - yer it's crap
10% profesional VHS player with time base corrector
20% Analogue PAL TV off air signal .
24% Normal DVD player with composite output.
25% Normal DVD player with SVHS output.
30% Progressive output DVD player
31% HDMI output DVD player
32% Upscalling and HDMI output DVD player(ie PS3)
50% Blu-ray disk with 720P display and HDMI output (ie PS3)
98% Blu-ray disk with 1080P dispay and HDMI output (ie PS3)
98% Cinema quality via film
100% Cinema quality via digital cinema projection and copy.
100%+ Master uncompressed Digital or Master Film copy.

You could show blu-ray in a cinema it's that good !.

No doubt everyone will claim I'm "Sony bashing" again - but the several BluRay / HD-DVD movies I have seen on demo (full 1080p, etc..) left me so unmoved it wasn't even funny.

At times I was peering at the set, wondering if I was missing something - whether it was HD at all. Yup, it was.

Each to their own. This is so not a selling point for me (for the cost), its not even funny.