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    Default What do you think of Blu Ray?

    I personally believe that Blu Ray is an incredible piece of technology. It can hold more than DVDs and shows image quality superior to DVDs.

    However, I also believe that it will be quite a while yet until the DVD is considered 100% obsolete. I love my DVD collection, and I don't really have a desire to replace my current DVDs with Blu Ray versions. That would feel kind of like swapping one film for the same one with a bigger price tag.

    DVDs still deliver a superior cinematic experience than video tapes, and you can use them on a PC and take them with you and play it on your laptop.

    Blu Ray is definately the future, but it will be a while before DVDs will disappear due to a) being cheaper, b) Blu Ray players are expensive and c) some people don't even know that Blu Rays are (seriously, I asked a middle aged woman I worked with and she had no clue what it was).
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    I honestly can't tell the difference between blue ray quality and DVD quality. So it mostly feels like a waste of money.



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    I wouldn't be surprised if Blu-Ray is suceeded by another newer disc format before it can realise it's full potential.
    I say this based on some of the newer prototype disc media stories I see online. Some can hold significantly more than blu-Ray, they're just not cost effective, yet.

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    I like Blu Ray and all, but sometimes the video quality in a film looks even worse than the regular DVD version. Like Ong Bak: Thai Warrior for example. The blu ray version of that film looks like crap lol. The picture is over saturated and it's too dark in some parts of the film. Some films have grain in the background. I dunno if it was intentionally shot that way, but in Ip Man, the fight scenes in the arena had a lot of fuzz in the background. Anyways, my niece thinks blu ray just looks like a brightened up version of a regular DVD, and I think I agree with her lol XD

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    ^ That's probably because the movie wasn't made for Blu-Ray. Do not buy any movies before 2009 and late 2008 on Blu-Ray. They were not meant to be in 1080p and will look like really terrible upscales.

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    I'm very happy the format war is over and we can standardize this as the new single brand.

    It will be great for movies and things that would have required multiple DVD's previously, but as you said, hard drives are getting so much bigger and cheaper that using it for backups or any other similar use seems impractical and illogical.

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    I guess it's awesome but so far I have not used it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eris View Post
    I honestly can't tell the difference between blue ray quality and DVD quality. So it mostly feels like a waste of money.
    Unless you're really observant, yeap, you really can't tell the difference, even I can't tell much difference between "High Definition" and the ordinary.

    But I agree that Blue-ray is undoubtedly better than DVDs but the price is still way up there! I'd take a DVD any day but a Blue-Ray? no thanks...
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    The reason you can't tell a difference is due to the fact most TVs at reasonable prices don't go up to 1080p. They probably go up to 720 which is regular HD. If that's the case (as it most likely is) then you wont see any difference. Though the quality may in fact be worse when forced to be played on a lower resolution. Though like Hide said, the opposite is also true. When forced into a higher resolution the quality can also take a turn for the worst. Cost is a main reason why people haven't switched yet. A new TV is at least two to three thousand dollars at the least. Though for 1080p I'm inclined to go for four thousand dollars. Couple that with a blue ray player (five to eight hundred dollars) and the price of Blu Ray discs (sixty a pop). That quickly adds up. And that's excluding things like surround speakers and the like. Most people can't afford all that. Especially in todays economy.

    As for using it to store data you have things like flash drives. You can find ones that go up to thirty-two gigabytes. That's more then enough for transferring files and is easier to use and carry around. If you plan to back something up long term then you should simply invest in an external hard drive. Blu Ray would be good for games but most people don't have a Blu Ray is money and now a days most PCs come with DVD players by default. As such, there isn't more demand for it.

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    I think Blu Ray is great, because it enhances the images a lot better than DVDs. I think it'll be the future of videos. I remember back in the day when VHS was slowly transitioning into DVDs, and I remember a lot of people saying the same things they are saying now about Blu Ray. "VHS is too popular, no one will buy DVDs because they are too expensive", "Not everyone has a DVD at home, so VHS will be here".............uhhh no. I'm glad I don't have to use that VHS rewinder..omggg, it was ridiculous!

    Everyone will switch over to Blu Rays, because that's what movies are heading towards. The REAL question is how long will 3D TV last? It sounds like a failed attempt to make people pay more $..............just like smellovision.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chibichibichibi View Post
    I think Blu Ray is great, because it enhances the images a lot better than DVDs. I think it'll be the future of videos. I remember back in the day when VHS was slowly transitioning into DVDs, and I remember a lot of people saying the same things they are saying now about Blu Ray. "VHS is too popular, no one will buy DVDs because they are too expensive", "Not everyone has a DVD at home, so VHS will be here".............uhhh no. I'm glad I don't have to use that VHS rewinder..omggg, it was ridiculous!

    Everyone will switch over to Blu Rays, because that's what movies are heading towards. The REAL question is how long will 3D TV last? It sounds like a failed attempt to make people pay more $..............just like smellovision.
    Well, People will only switch to Blu-Ray if the manufacturers find out a way to keep the cost down. It's just too expensive. Here in my country, you can buy a good DVD player for only 50$ (in equivalent currency), but you can't buy a blu-ray player unless you have at least 500$, the difference is obvious. Plus, a blank Blu-ray disc costs about 20$ but a blank DVD costs only about a dollar each. Right now, Blue-Ray tech is definitely reserved to the higher class people.

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    Default Re: What do you think of Blu Ray?

    I like Blu Ray quite a bit, but it seems more like a DVD 1.5 than the "next generation" of video media distribution, whatever that may end up being. As far as buying Blu Ray discs go, I think it's really only worth it for movies that are incredibly detailed or visually demanding...the typical movie I just get on DVD.

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    Personally, I don't think the next generation of movie distribution will be on discs. I don't see discs lasting much longer in any form. In fact the next generation of players could be a lot cheaper because there wont be a need for a scanner. I envision things to start being distributed on something similar to flash drives but designed to play movies and not to transfer data. Though at first this may drive individual movie (or any media) sales up. The players themselves will be inexpensive due to the need of only needing a digital reader. Though something like that could easily be placed into a TV and remove the need of extra hardware at all. So overall it'd be cheaper then blu ray is now, at the start. And like Gjall, said Blu Ray really is just a minor upgrade, unlike DVDs from VHS.

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    Default Re: What do you think of Blu Ray?

    I just found out DVDs degrade over time. Great, in ten years I'll have a whole shelf of anime DVDs that just sit there on the shelf with no rewatchability.

    We need pornography on Blu-Ray. I don't know if you guys know this, but if it weren't for porn, DVD's wouldn't be as popular as they are now. VHS was still considered the better product, even in the late 90's.

    On a side note: I just saw District 9 on Blu Ray. You have to be blind to not see the difference.

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    Default Re: What do you think of Blu Ray?

    Well, as @GameGeek has said there is no point buying Bluray drive if you don't have 1080p or ( some ppl haven't even heard about this ) 2160p ( TV from Toshiba with built-in Cell Be microprocessor. I don't know if there are any movies with 4k resolution, i.e 2160 ... )
    Otherwise you are wasting your money, make your CPU/GPU do unnecessary work - downscale ( far worse then upscale - dividing is harder then multiplying for CPU ) + color conversation in most cases. For e.g I have PS3 and few months ago was still using 640 x 480 ( 480p ) TV, well ... didn't find any difference.

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    Default Re: What do you think of Blu Ray?

    I think that type of quality would just lag everything. That would mean cameras would have to have better quality then our own eyesight.

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    Default Re: What do you think of Blu Ray?

    I agree, I think of it as just another DVD with more storage, just as a DVD is a CD with more storage.I'm also very happy the format war is over and we can standardize this as the new single brand.It will be great for movies and things that would have required multiple DVD's previously, but as you said, hard drives are getting so much bigger and cheaper that using it for backups or any other similar use seems impractical and illogical.

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    how different is it REALLY? I've seen it advertised and i've never seen it. I don't get what's soo different about it than normal d.v.d.s you buy. Sounds like a boycott to get you to buy something more expensive. Wouldn't you need like a 3D telly or one of those very expensive t.v's which need 3D glasses to see it better anyway? I doubt you'd need a normal 'everyday' t.v! People don't even NEED 3D telly, 3D glasses, surrond sound and all these flash things these days. Seriously. Well, in my opinion anyway.

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    Default Re: What do you think of Blu Ray?

    The difference is in size, Blu Ray has more space and thus can hold higher quality data which takes up more room. But yeah, for 90% of what's out there it makes little difference.

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    Default Re: What do you think of Blu Ray?

    I like the idea of a disk that can hold more data. I do not like the idea of making videos take up more space just to increase the quality a marginal degree. Blu-ray should be used to put more content on the disk, not to make the content just a bit more crisp.

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    I envision things to start being distributed on something similar to flash drives but designed to play movies and not to transfer data.
    The thing about flash memory is that it is far more expensive than disks are. Just compare the cost of a DVD to a flash drive of equal data storage. The Entertainment Industry is not going to be able to sell movies at that price.

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    Default Re: What do you think of Blu Ray?

    I don't have Blu-ray, but from what I've heard, the quality can only be seen on a giant screen.
    Not everything is black and white like that.

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    Default Re: What do you think of Blu Ray?

    Blu Ray is the future

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    Default Re: What do you think of Blu Ray?

    My TV is 1080p
    I can tell the difference in picture quality by a great margin.
    However, this is because I work at a place that sells several TV's, and I'm staring at them all day because nobody goes to Radioshack anymore unless they want a battery or a phone, so after a while you can start to tell the difference when you've got several TV's of varying quality all playing the same picture at the same time.

    And truthfully, if you want a good HDTV that actually shows the difference by a much larger margin, you're going to be spending a little more than 300USD and you're going to be looking for at LEAST a 40 inch set.
    Sure, I push those 300 dollar bricks to people so I can make a sale...But would I buy one of those cheap ones? Nooooooooooo. No I would not.

    Buy I can see why the casual observer wouldn't notice any difference.

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    Default Re: What do you think of Blu Ray?

    Even on the 32" 1080P screen I keep in my room so I can game in bed the difference in visual quality between a DVD and a blu-ray is highly noticeable.
    Add a decent sound system and I notice the sound quality too so long as the particular movie takes advantage of higher quality sound.
    I have noticed generally the higher resolution of a display device regardless of the physical size of the display device, the more you notice discrepancies in picture with DVDs being that blocky they're barely viewable on some devices with crappier upscaling.
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    Default Re: What do you think of Blu Ray?

    Quote Originally Posted by Gjallarhorn View Post
    I like Blu Ray quite a bit, but it seems more like a DVD 1.5 than the "next generation" of video media distribution, whatever that may end up being. As far as buying Blu Ray discs go, I think it's really only worth it for movies that are incredibly detailed or visually demanding...the typical movie I just get on DVD.
    I agree with this. The next generation from videos was the DVD which successfully sold quickly and became renowned. Blu-Ray is doing great but the majority of people still use the classic DVD. There will be something newer, better in the near future which will be the generation up.
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