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Max King of the Wild on 04 December 2008
Cypher1980 said:
Blu Ray retail price is some kind of bad joke.

Sainsbury's North London ENGLAND this evening.

Hancock DVD 9.97 GBP
Hancock BluRay 19.97 GBP

This is ludicrous.....the price difference is so large only a fool would buy the Blu Ray version.

Still you know what they say about a fool and his money.

 

 or someone who wants a good quality picture while watching a movie. BTW there must be millions of fools.



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Cypher1980 on 04 December 2008
Max King of the Wild said:
Cypher1980 said:
Blu Ray retail price is some kind of bad joke.

Sainsbury's North London ENGLAND this evening.

Hancock DVD 9.97 GBP
Hancock BluRay 19.97 GBP

This is ludicrous.....the price difference is so large only a fool would buy the Blu Ray version.

Still you know what they say about a fool and his money.

 

 or someone who wants a good quality picture while watching a movie. BTW there must be millions of fools.

Is the improvement worth paying twice the price of DVD ?

 



Max King of the Wild on 04 December 2008
Cypher1980 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Cypher1980 said:
Blu Ray retail price is some kind of bad joke.

Sainsbury's North London ENGLAND this evening.

Hancock DVD 9.97 GBP
Hancock BluRay 19.97 GBP

This is ludicrous.....the price difference is so large only a fool would buy the Blu Ray version.

Still you know what they say about a fool and his money.

 

 or someone who wants a good quality picture while watching a movie. BTW there must be millions of fools.

Is the improvement worth paying twice the price of DVD ?

 

yes

 



MikeB on 04 December 2008
Alasted said:
iron_megalith said:
Whoever wrote this article needs to shut up.. I'd rather watch VHS/beta movies rather than read that eyesore article.

Yes, how dare he express his opinion!

It's not worded as opinion, it's worded as solid facts. IMO it's garbage though. He better be right: "Blu-ray is in a death spiral" or else IMO he's just as bad as many of the loudmouth 360 fanboys talking about PS3 vs 360 technicals.

 



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midwinter on 04 December 2008

DVD started the same way. Everyone said I was crazy when I was buying DVDs for $30 a pop and they were picking up VHS. Now I really was crazy when I was paying more than that for LaserDiscs. They were awesome, but made my bank account cry.



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dbot on 04 December 2008
Cypher1980 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Cypher1980 said:
Blu Ray retail price is some kind of bad joke.

Sainsbury's North London ENGLAND this evening.

Hancock DVD 9.97 GBP
Hancock BluRay 19.97 GBP

This is ludicrous.....the price difference is so large only a fool would buy the Blu Ray version.

Still you know what they say about a fool and his money.

 

 or someone who wants a good quality picture while watching a movie. BTW there must be millions of fools.

Is the improvement worth paying twice the price of DVD ?

 

 

 Only a fool would buy a DVD if they have a Blu-ray player. 



Thanks for the input, Jeff.

 

 

Homeroids on 04 December 2008

I simply look for bargains on BD discs. A local chain retailer has a buy 2 get one free offer. I got that. So suddenly I have 6 new BD discs for the price of 4. Saying that, it's still more to buy but at times, at least it gets competitive. It ended up costing me $21AU each (about $15US). And another thing, probably 95% of all BD discs thus far are region free so if your currency is good (mine is crap being the south pacific ruble, aka Aussie dollar) then you can get them from places like Amazon, sometimes a lot cheaper.



Jordahn on 04 December 2008
Cypher1980 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Cypher1980 said:
Blu Ray retail price is some kind of bad joke.

Sainsbury's North London ENGLAND this evening.

Hancock DVD 9.97 GBP
Hancock BluRay 19.97 GBP

This is ludicrous.....the price difference is so large only a fool would buy the Blu Ray version.

Still you know what they say about a fool and his money.

 

or someone who wants a good quality picture while watching a movie. BTW there must be millions of fools.

Is the improvement worth paying twice the price of DVD ?

 

 

"Paying twice the price" is relative.  But $10 more for HD video AND sound, yes if this is your movie.  It's at least worth renting at about the same price.  But your example isn't the greatest since the 2 disc DVD version and the 2 disc Blu-ray version (the only Blu-ray version) is only a $5 SMRP difference.



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Jordahn on 04 December 2008
Homeroids said:
I simply look for bargains on BD discs. A local chain retailer has a buy 2 get one free offer. I got that. So suddenly I have 6 new BD discs for the price of 4. Saying that, it's still more to buy but at times, at least it gets competitive. It ended up costing me $21AU each (about $15US). And another thing, probably 95% of all BD discs thus far are region free so if your currency is good (mine is crap being the south pacific ruble, aka Aussie dollar) then you can get them from places like Amazon, sometimes a lot cheaper.

My wife is a Stargate fan.  She just bought the original movie uncut edition for just $10 Blu-ray.  Let's say she can find it at $4 on DVD.  Sure, she'd be saving $6, but she wouldn't be getting what she wanted.  That's wasting $4 on a DVD when it's $10 well spent on Blu-ray.  And who's to argue to spend $10 on an HD movie that you want and can afford?  Choices.

 



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halogamer1989 on 04 December 2008

Agrees and runs away ....... >>
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