What do you think of Blu Ray?

[truthillusion]

Only real difference is that a Blu-Ray holds more data, and thus has better sound quality that no one will ever notice the difference. DVDs perform the same basic video quality.

[TheAsterisk!]

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.

Why, then, not just pure files? That film distributors limit us mainly to optical media is bizarre.

Everyone will switch over to Blu Rays, because that's what movies are heading towards.

Just like no one was going to use the floppy diskette after CD-ROMs (and later personal CD burners) were introduced, eh? Or when ZIP drives came out? Pshaw.
I still have sixty-nine 3.5" diskettes, and one incredible, beautiful 5.25" diskette.

The 5.25" I don't use much, but the 3.5"s are still occasionally nifty. Heck, I was required to use one a few days ago to update a driver on another computer.
And- I might as well say it- the digital camera I used to take the picture uses a 64 MB CompactFlash card for storage. I was going to use an old Sony to take the picture, since that one can actually use floppies for storage, but its battery wasn't charged.

[RaShayRitto]

It always boggles my brain when people say they cant see a difference between SD and HD, or DVD and Blu Ray. Thats a massive pixel difference there! I'm the kind of person who has to hunt for a 720p raw of an anime and then attach someone's subtitles so I don't have to watch some subgroups 480p release (what utter nonsense)

With live action movies...yeah, 1080p doesn't give you much and the difference is only clear when you compare it directly to an SD image of the same film. With anything else, such as anime, 3D animation, or gaming....MOAR PIXELS PLEASE

[SlickStretch]

I never understood the Blu-Ray hype until I replaced my 23" tube TV with a 52" plasma with 1080p and got Lord of the Rings on Blu-Ray. The image is incredible. Also, having a disc with a capacity of over 40gb is some pretty awesome data storage. I don't believe Blu-Ray is going to be replaced any time soon, but the new 3D TVs are about to render all of your HDTV's obsolete.

[Captian Jack sparrow]

Blue ray is just another way for the man to get more money and many Americans can't afford a blue ray player and i really can't see the difference between a regular dvd and blue.

[SirDan]

I used to say there is no difference between Blu ray and DVD, that or I couldn't tell... then I bought a Samsung 63" 3D Plasma TV and a Bluray player (Becuase of the 3D) and since then I've been buying Bluray and the difference is amazing. I used to have a 42" Sony Bravia LCD ... and it was alright but nothing like this. So there is a huge difference, and without the proper full HD television and a decent surround sound system you're just wasting your money.

[::SomeOtherCookiez::]

I bought a Blu-ray disc of Afro Samurai: Complete Murder series, didn't work on my PS3 and didn't work on my DVD player. darn machine.

[blueangel06661]

You guys are sort of silly. Has anyone mentioned the CAMERAS people are filming with are getting better and better. A single red camera [most commonly used for film sets] Cost about 25 thousand to 50 thousand. The lenses cost about 4 thousand. The media cards cost about 950 to 3 thousand. These are some REALLY high end camera's they have been using just in the last few years.

DVD's and BluRay are the same. The only difference I've noticed that in a split second in Pirates of the Caribbean you can spot a crewman in the background of a scene. For DVD it was off screen but in BluRay it was picked up.

Also if it wasn't for the ps3 coming standard with BluRay it probably would've died out. I've yet met anyone with an actual BluRay player.

[Kusuke]

A lot of people don't know, but Blu Ray being in the PS3 wasn't an accident. It was actually supposed to be the first Blu Ray device to be released, but it ended up being the Samsung BD-P1000 instead (I don't really know the reasons why). The PS3 being compatible with Blu Ray was a promotion for Blu Ray discs in general, and it worked. Since HD DVD's don't necessarily have direct console support, they faded away as far as gaming was concerned. For everything else, they have 40% more capacity, and a LARGE amount of studio and computer support. If you wanted to see a movie in full 1080p, there aren't any guarantees that your movie will come out in HD DVD. Of course regular DVD will always be available, but at the cost of resolution. There are 4 times as many studios (12) behind Blu Ray as there are behind HD DVD (3), and that was as of 2008. It may very well have changed, but the HD DVD is fighting a losing battle.

I personally like Blu Ray, and I know several people who own one (Yes, I'm including PS3's since playing Blu Rays is an intended purpose). The quality is awesome (If you're not already using other 1080p media, in which case it's no different).

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

I bought a Blu-ray disc of Afro Samurai: Complete Murder series, didn't work on my PS3 and didn't work on my DVD player. darn machine.

Where did you buy the movie or your PS3?

PS3 is Region 1, meaning it's only Region Free for games only, not for PS2 games, DVDs, Blurays, CDs nor PS1 games.

If both PS3 and movie are from the same region then I don't know what to tell you. maybe an update?
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Also, I gotta love Bluray with my HDTV. =3

[TadashiED]

Blu-Ray is definitely one of, if not, the best way to watch 1080p videos. But the problem with Blu-Ray is that they are expensive. Not just the Blu-Ray, but if you want to watch at its full potential, you will need to buy a TV that you can support 1080p, and you will need to buy a Blu-Ray player which in total, can be very expensive, all for the sake of watching a video in higher quality.

As of now, I'll stick with DVDs...
Well, for me, I don't even watch DVDs, but rather I watch things on my laptop xD

[Videogamer555]

I think the image quality is better than DVD.

[wolfgirl90]

You guys are sort of silly. Has anyone mentioned the CAMERAS people are filming with are getting better and better. A single red camera [most commonly used for film sets] Cost about 25 thousand to 50 thousand. The lenses cost about 4 thousand. The media cards cost about 950 to 3 thousand. These are some REALLY high end camera's they have been using just in the last few years.

DVD's and BluRay are the same. The only difference I've noticed that in a split second in Pirates of the Caribbean you can spot a crewman in the background of a scene. For DVD it was off screen but in BluRay it was picked up.

Er...no. They are quite different, both in video and audio quality and storage space. Sure, movie cameras have improved over the years; hell, filming in 1080p is kinda standard now since the required equipment is easy to get. However, that doesn't mean that you are going to get HD quality from your DVDs; merely filming something in HD doesn't mean that you are going to get an HD picture on a DVD. One will never be able to watch anything in HD from a DVD, not even with a HDTV (in fact, as some people have said, upscaling like that can make things worse). If you want to watch movies in HD, you need Blu-ray and an HDTV.



First image is with Blu-ray on a plasma TV. Second one is with Blu-ray on a regular analog TV. Third is with DVD on an analog TV. There are noticeable differences between the three, especially when the size of the screen is accounted for (the plasma is 50 inches while the analogs are 14 inches). Also notice how increasing the quality of the disc without changing the quality of the television (in the second image) actually made the video slightly worse.

[blueangel06661]

I can tell you.. Up until a few weeks ago I still watched DVD's on Analog. The picture looks NOTHING like the one on the far right.

[Kaitou Ace]

There is definitely a huge difference between HD video (blu-ray) and SD video like DVD. Most blu-ray videos also preserve the original non-interlaced format of the video, allowing standard 24p at full resolution, which makes a huge difference to the video quality. I film with a 5DmkII and while even DVD quality footage looks nice out of it, the abilities of full 1080 are quite a few steps above, and it is very easy to tell them apart visually.

As for the demo image, it is just more zoomed in, what you see on the far right one are the way the "pixels" are laid out on an analog tv, if you get up close to it, you will see the same pattern. The individual pixels are different in digital displays, and provides a much smoother image.

[Mattey]

Yo! :P Heres some pics to make the difference :P
First Pic!
Upper pic is Blue-ray, lower pic is DVD
Second Pic!
Here the Lower pic is the Blue-ray :P Upper is DVD

Hopes that makes some clears up a little? :P

[YuriEcchiGirl]

I personally don't think that Blu Ray really is all that, I'm more than happy with DVDs & always will be ^^

[The Wing Man]

I was against it at first but I only like to buy bluyray, I almost have 50 of them and just love how easy it makes everything.

[ranga111]

i think blu ray moves unnaturally like the people are moving too fast :S
P.S. longboards <3

[Xieshunnuan]

Blue ray has a much bigger resolution so there for it has a better quality when you're watching it on wider screened tv.
If you can't tell the difference then that means you're tv/monitor px is pretty crappy

[Sir Dutchman]

To be honest... I could do without. But I got a PS3 last year, and an HDTV a bit later. So... I figured I may just as well use it. The image quality is great though. But I only buy a couple of things for eye candy... Toy Story Collection, Planet Earth and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children so far.

[kkslider55]

Well, I have no problem just buying DVDs, but I do enjoy the general extra special features that come with Blu-Rays.

[Navigator]

Well, okay I have a Playstation 3. But I don't own any BluRay.. I guess.. I don't see the point in paying extra for it.
I'm not saying I'm cheap, but I am satisfied with the picture on regular DVD's. I would rather spend the extra money
on something of more importance. I do enjoy the better picture quality of the few I have seen in BluRay..But I guess it
isn't that amazing that I think that's all I have to have now. DVD's are fine with me for now! (:

[╬Karami Mew~Meow]

I think it's a waste of money. The people I'm living with right now has it, and it's pretty stupid since it can only play blue ray DVDs -.-
It's just there to eat everyone's money and hoping to replace DVDs -_- DVDs themselves have a good enough quality

[Ghost]

I think its Awesome Clear vision Baby yeaaah