WicKeDcHilD
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seriously, when people try to tell me there is a difference between bluray and dvd i just don't get it...
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"But the ugly truth of the matter is that once you've got the 1080 HDTV, once you've bought a DVD player with HDMI cable connections, Blu-ray is superfluous. The features are fancier, but the picture? No improvement. Investing in a player (unless you already have a Blu-ray-ready PlayStation) is a needless expense. Downloads are the future, not discs in a cute blue box."
It sure is. So many stories like this one are being published that I'm beginning to think someone is pushing / running a stealth campaign against Blu-ray. The questions are who and why?
DVD offers 30 frames per second, Blu-ray only gets 24 frames per second.
DVD offers 30 frames per second, Blu-ray only gets 24 frames per second.
Until we can record things to the resolution, clarity, and focus of the human eye... I don't care.
Good ol' DVD format looks good enough for me. Sure it doesn't have crisp lines, but does bluray? Yeah, the lines might look a little nicer but it still isn't 100% clear.
Wish everyone would stop giving a crap about this. With the economy the way it is, is it worth $400 player and $50 for some laughs?
Go buy a $40 bottle of Svedka and get ready for some lemon drops with your buddies, that's the way to have fun.
Sorry for enjoying something you don't, Mr. Stalin.Until we can record things to the resolution, clarity, and focus of the human eye... I don't care.
Good ol' DVD format looks good enough for me. Sure it doesn't have crisp lines, but does bluray? Yeah, the lines might look a little nicer but it still isn't 100% clear.
Wish everyone would stop giving a crap about this. With the economy the way it is, is it worth $400 player and $50 for some laughs?
Go buy a $40 bottle of Svedka and get ready for some lemon drops with your buddies, that's the way to have fun.
I have a 100 inch screen and 1080 projector, and anything that isn't in high resolution looks like blurry crap! This guy can go F*ck himself.
DVD offers 30 frames per second, Blu-ray only gets 24 frames per second.
This guy screens a movie filmed in 1968 and expects to be floored by the difference between the DVD transfer and Blu-ray? I wonder if he tried a newer movie like Ratatouille, he'd have the same opinion...
Last I checked, I still get judder with DVD's. They are filmed the same as BD's initially. They don't film a DVD version and then do it again for BD's.DVD offers 30 frames per second, Blu-ray only gets 24 frames per second.
Downloads are fine if you only watch them on an iPod. For anything else the quality is just not there.
It's not that people can't tell the difference, it's that people just don't care and really don't care to pay for it.I'm sorry. You can totally tell the difference between Blu Ray movies and DVD's. Watch Forbiden Kingdom vs it's DVD counterpart. Watching Blu Ray movies (at least some of them) is like watching a live play or being on the set.
If you can't tell the difference between blu ray, get your eyes check people!.
capacity. Lets say 6 to 7 times of current Blu-ray. For now its Blu-ray but I don't see it until the movies = DVD prices. If you have a CRT still its pointless. Needless to say. Just wait little longer. Besides if I want to watch blu-ray then I can watch it on my computer with my hd/blu reader.
Those who dress like pirates know that mkv videos are just as good, just not very legal.Ever seen a HD title in mkv format? Looks fantastic, better than DVD I'd wager and reasonable file size too. (2 to 8 gig depending on the title)
I'll pickup a BR drive if the price is right for the odd rental movie and a upscaling DVD player.
I'll mention that I do have a media center PC so have no problem with lack of physical media for the most part.
You guys are forgetting one important factor - That ISP's are actively toying with charging us for additional bandwidth.
How can downloads be the wave of the future when it's going to cost you more?
"Top ten reasons that prove Hollywood is only playing in the downloads world while focusing its real efforts on Blu-ray.
10 - Movie commercials say "now available on Blu-ray and DVD" never mentions downloads.
9 - You can't rent TV shows from any download service, but you can buy them on disc.
8 - 24 hour rental window.
7 - 30 day rental limit.
6 - Extras only available on discs
5 - Can't rent HD movies on the PC (only on boxes like the 360, Vudu etc).
4 - Pulls previously available movies from the selection.
3 - About a 30 day window between when a title is released on disc and on download services.
2 - Digital copies are now included with many discs.
1 - Can't buy HD movies from any service."
Why I'm glad you asked there little k1DBLITZ.You guys are forgetting one important factor - That ISP's are actively toying with charging us for additional bandwidth.
How can downloads be the wave of the future when it's going to cost you more?
Why is it every week we discuss this? It's like arguing over Israel....one side of the argument will never be the victor.
I cannot state enough that a upconverted dvd picture will never look as good as a blu-ray picture (though DVD still has a great picture). I sell the hardware enough everday to know this. To take full advantage of blu-ray, one must buy a 1080P tv, dolby digital 7.1 surround system and a HDMI connection. If you want the best picture and sound for your 1080P tv, blu-ray is the way to go for now.
I agree with a lot of the posts here that says the article is poorly written.
However, I agree with one of its main points: That for the average person, blu-ray is not going to be noticeably different than an upscaled DVD.
This is because:
a) Most people don't have HDTV's
b) Even when people have HDTV's, the average consumer sits so damn far away from them given the screen size, their eyes don't physically have the resolving power to actually differentiate upscaled 480p vs. even real 720p let alone real 1080i/p
c) Most people don't calibrate their TV's AT ALL, so they generally watch it with out-of-the box settings, which for the price point they usually purchase TV's at it'll probably be quite horrendously out of spec for NTSC and ATSC.
d) Finally the most important point, average people just don't care that much about the nuances of high end picture quality... DVD is good enough for them.
What I disagree with is that digital downloads are the way to go for the *average* consumer...
This is because most people don't have the super deluxe broadband access that us [H] geeks and the author of the newspaper article take for granted and fork out $40+ a month for that's required for decent SD streaming, let alone half decent HD streaming (most of us enthusiasts don't even *have* access to fiber that would actually allow blu-ray level HD streaming, that's if we can even find a source for such streams.)
Those who dress like pirates know that mkv videos are just as good, just not very legal.