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Originally posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
I was just wondering if any of you have switched from DVD over to Blu-ray?

I bought my first Blu-ray player last year and have loved the picture quality provided by the Blu ray discs.

I still buy DVD's but generally buy Blu whenever I can.

I have listed my Blu-ray disc collection to date. The one's which are starred came free with my player (which is a Sony BDP-S550).

Batman Begins (*)
Casino Royale (*)
Dirty Harry
Hancock (*)
Helvetica
Mama Mia (*)
Million Dollar Baby
Quantum Of Solace
Sex And The City: The Movie (Extended Cut)
Space Cowboys
Sudden Impact
The Dead Pool
The Enforcer
Top Gear: Polar Special (Director's Cut)
Unforgiven
Wall*E (*)
Wallace And Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death

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Originally posted by Big Brothers Big Scam:

quote:

Originally posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
I was just wondering if any of you have switched from DVD over to Blu-ray?

I bought my first Blu-ray player last year and have loved the picture quality provided by the Blu ray discs.

I still buy DVD's but generally buy Blu whenever I can.

I have listed my Blu-ray disc collection to date. The one's which are starred came free with my player (which is a Sony BDP-S550).

Batman Begins (*)
Casino Royale (*)
Dirty Harry
Hancock (*)
Helvetica
Mama Mia (*)
Million Dollar Baby
Quantum Of Solace
Sex And The City: The Movie (Extended Cut)
Space Cowboys
Sudden Impact
The Dead Pool
The Enforcer
Top Gear: Polar Special (Director's Cut)
Unforgiven
Wall*E (*)
Wallace And Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death

we have a blur-ay player but only a few discs, the picture quality isnt even close to hd-dvd so when possible we try to get the hd version first (obviously cant get new movies in hd-dvd), if not then normal dvd (which we upscale), seems companies are getting sneaky now though and releasing blur-ay first so now i download the br rip and buy the dvd when it comes out.

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Originally posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:

Hi,

I was quite surprised by your post. HD-DVD has been discontinued for a very long time now. I have to disagree with you but the quality of Blu-ray films is excellent. The encodes are so much better now that studios have got into their stride. You should see the remastered Bond films (superb for their age). Films like Wall*E are breathtaking. I would argue strongly that Blu-ray films now surpass HD-DVD in everyway. I have compared both the DVD and Blu-ray versions of Quantum of Solace (which I own) and the Blu-ray is clearly much better than the DVD equivalent.

I would urge you to revisit Blu-ray because it is probably the best way to view films at present, at least until we get 2K !!!

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Originally posted by Big Brothers Big Scam:

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Originally posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:

Hi,

I was quite surprised by your post. HD-DVD has been discontinued for a very long time now. I have to disagree with you but the quality of Blu-ray films is excellent. The encodes are so much better now that studios have got into their stride. You should see the remastered Bond films (superb for their age). Films like Wall*E are breathtaking. I would argue strongly that Blu-ray films now surpass HD-DVD in everyway. I have compared both the DVD and Blu-ray versions of Quantum of Solace (which I own) and the Blu-ray is clearly much better than the DVD equivalent.

I would urge you to revisit Blu-ray because it is probably the best way to view films at present, at least until we get 2K !!!

whilst i accept that br has progressed quite a lot its only now with the latest discs and players even getting close to what hd-dvd was from the start but still with one huge minus point, hd-dvd was region free br isnt on the plus side it means that films that were out on hd-dvd can easily be picked up worldwide, dont get me wrong we do have br players (the panasonic ones with divx) but we can still be watching an hd-dvd disc whilst its br equivalent is still booting up, the fact that br also has some "hidden" surprises up its sleeve is also very offputting, its drm system makes even apples drm look positively benign and you just know that once dvd finaly dies off they will activate it bringing a whole new world of hurt to its users, knowing what is capable of just makes me want it to fail so badly that i'm happy to live with upscaled dvd until the holo-dvd system starts to appear in a couple of years capable of storing and playing video at quad hd rates.