Question for all you Blue ray experts!!!

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Ok, I do have a lot of 80's-90's dvd movies. I need to buy a dvd player that has an HDMI output to my tv which is a 42" LCD. I am thiking of getting into blue ray and seems that their playback systems can also play regular DVD's. Is it worth buying old movies on blue ray? can you really tell the differents from a DVD? Later I plan to get me a 50" so not sure if I should continue old movies on reg dvd's. thanks
 
Best to read reviews of the re-released movies to see if
a) they are of good enough quality initially to be capable of seeing a gain moving to Blu Ray
b) the people re-releasing the movies know what they are doing and arent just trying to make a quick buck by calling the titles "Blu Ray"
ie the movie may have extra detail but the procedures used dont liberate it because of bad tools/technique/procedures.
 
It really depends on the movie. I have seem some movies that get a definite gain from being in the higher quality but then I have also seen some garbage.
 
i think it depends on how picky you are with pixels, my little bro will watch 320*240 all day on his 19" or even on his 360 (with a 35" crt) but i cant watch anything less then 720p without noticing pixels, which for me completely ruin the experience :(
 
Nenu said:
Best to read reviews of the re-released movies to see if
a) they are of good enough quality initially to be capable of seeing a gain moving to Blu Ray
b) the people re-releasing the movies know what they are doing and arent just trying to make a quick buck by calling the titles "Blu Ray"
ie the movie may have extra detail but the procedures used dont liberate it because of bad tools/technique/procedures.
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Plenty of studio's do this, release it, with little remastering, just a quick upscale and you end up with a crappy pixelated movie to sell the movie again cause they know suckers will buy it thinking it is a top quality re-mastered movie, when it isnt.
 
I just watched the Pink Panther (1962) on bluray and it is an excellent transfer.
Airplane and Airplane 2 on Bluray are also excellent transfers.
 
People forget that the resolution of analog film is far higher than Blu-Ray. So if you have a pristine master, then there is certainly no "upscaling" involved. Unfortunately many masters of older movies are in far from perfect condition, and each flaw will be far more visible in a hi-def format like Blu-Ray. Film grain will also often show up, but often this was the director fo the movie's choice.
 
^^ very true, pictures have been shot in widescreen and "HD" so to speak since the 40's i beleive, avs movie review section really shows the difference between good and bad release.
 
For the record, I have The Adventures Of Robin Hood on Blu-ray (oldest film on BD, 1938) and it looks fantastic in 1080p, FAR, FAR better then the DVD.
 
I thought I'd add my two cents and largely agree with people here that old films can still look great on Blu-Ray but they have to be judged individually. Film is naturally high def (a 35mm frame has 20+ MP of usable information) but the "remastering" process varies wildly. High Def Digest is a great resource for BD reviews.

The oldest blu-ray film I recall seeing is Casablanca which looked stunning in hi-def.
 
First of all, it's Blu-ray. ;)

Not that that's out of the way, out of the almost thousand Blu-rays I've watched/come across, only a couple looked worse than their DVD counterpart. Ones like Traffic (the first version was SD; a later release fixed it) and Gangs of New York (SD, hasn't been remastered) come to mind.
 
IMO if you are getting new copies of old movies, then get blu-ray if the price seems right. If you are asking if you should repurchase your collection in the new format, I would wait until the prices really drop. Except for your ultra favs. If you don't have a big format TV there's not a lot of value anyway.

And the Oppo player is supposed to be the new sexy. http://www.oppodigital.com/blu-ray-bdp-83/ its not out yet but it sounds like you're taking your time anyway.
 
McG2k1 said:
IMO if you are getting new copies of old movies, then get blu-ray if the price seems right.
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... having first determined that the Blu Ray version is actually better quality.
 
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