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Blood_Tears on 04 November 2009
dsister44 said:
Reasonable said:
dsister44 said:
tedsteriscool said:
dsister44 said:

If they lower the price till it is the same price as dvds then I may start buying them . But I see no reason why I would pay more just for a little better picture -_-

3x better picture and HD, lossless sound. There's a lot more to BD than the picture boost.

From what I have seen there wasn't that much of a difference, and what is "lossless sound"?

Get yourself to an Optician my good fellow.  And open your ears while you're at it!

Lossless sound is uncompressed and therefore losses nothing in playback.

As for visuals, sure, some cheap crap film isn't going to look that much better on BR, in fact it may look worse, but any film with decent cinematography looks much better (well, on a decent HD TV it does).  And as for films like 2001, Blade Runner, etc. they look sublime, heavenly and lovely (in that order too).

So now I have to buy a new T.V., go see a optician, and pay an extra $10 for Blu-ray discs? That is way to expensive I'll stick to standard DVD's thank you 

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Darth Tigris on 04 November 2009

Truthfully Best Buy has no choice BUT to aggressively merchandise Blu Ray. Digital downloads and services like Netflix are on the rise, but those are of no benefit to a brick and mortar retailer like Best Buy. In fact, they are a direct threat. So this is no surprise, as the more they push Blu Ray the more it serves their interest.



ROBOTECHHEAVEN on 04 November 2009

i love my expanding blu-ray collection. just have to look for sales, because the price of the movies are still too much for me. i think all blu-ray movies should be $19.99 and no higher.



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letsdance on 04 November 2009
axumblade said:
My store recently expanded our blu-ray section (i'd say it's 2-2.5 times the size it was before).

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=88969

FinalEvangelion on 04 November 2009

My BB has about 35-40% of the movie section dedicated to Blu-ray movies. If they can get B&M Blu-ray prices to below $25, sales would probably explode. Right now, Hardware is doing just fine but software is still lagging for how much BD hardware is out there.



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Pharaoh on 04 November 2009

@dsister, no wonder you didn't see much difference. You don't have an HDTV!! Kind of easy to see why you didn't see a difference. And if you say you didn't see a difference after watching it in the store or something, then I'm not even going to waste my time.



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dsister44 on 04 November 2009
Pharaoh said:
@dsister, no wonder you didn't see much difference. You don't have an HDTV!! Kind of easy to see why you didn't see a difference. And if you say you didn't see a difference after watching it in the store or something, then I'm not even going to waste my time.

I have an HDTV. I even have my PS3 plugged into it with an HDMI cable. I just don't have one over 40in



Seraphic_Sixaxis on 04 November 2009

Rise of the Fallen was only $20 on Blu-Ray, this is really good news.



tedsteriscool on 04 November 2009
dsister44 said:
Pharaoh said:
@dsister, no wonder you didn't see much difference. You don't have an HDTV!! Kind of easy to see why you didn't see a difference. And if you say you didn't see a difference after watching it in the store or something, then I'm not even going to waste my time.

I have an HDTV. I even have my PS3 plugged into it with an HDMI cable. I just don't have one over 40in

http://www.walmart.com/Sharp-42-inch-LCD-HDTV/ip/11070376



robbo918 on 04 November 2009

@Pharaoh: Actually I hate when some stores show blu ray in the stores since a lot of them use too small of tvs or they don't optimize the picture. I LOVE blu rays, even when they only digitally scrub a movie and don't remaster it like they should (for older movies). A movie that you can tell they spent a little time with considering how old it is and the types of cameras they used back then is "The Last Starfighter", I was very impressed with the job they did on it.

Blu rays are coming down slowly, the key is watch Amazon and a couple other reputable online sites, they have sales for blu's down around $14-$19.

Blu ray picture quality is INCREDIBLE and the sound is amazing!