Do I need to start a new library?

[Tagred]

Ok so blu-ray is most likey to become the new format, but DVD has only been out like 15yrs or so, and i still only have a couple hundred of them, I also have nealry 400 videos and have been going through a process of buying dvd's to replace the vids, now the new formats here, the players are getting cheaper (around £250 so far) but the number of movies i see arent that great.

I dont want to change my library so soon, not when im no where near getting it to a satisfactory level for someone who claims to like movies a lot.

The average price of a blu ray is what now? And do they actually i mean really give you more for your money than DVD, when even DVD dont give you much for your money anyway especially with the vanilla versions of practically everything? So called special editions of DVD do not really have that much in it, apart from directors / actors chatting which is cool, and a few stills, which is not. The trailer i can live without.

Ok you get super high def with bluray etc, but then do i now need to spend a few grand on getting a TV that will do it justice, and maybe a 7 or 8.1 sound system as well?

In short, is it really worth going for blu-ray or just wait another year or two before the thing actually takes off and we get what we really want in terms of content in the new format, for which we all know is going to be exhorbitantly expensive for not very much?

Anyone?

[Harv]

I have 37" 1080p TV and a PS3 and Blu-Ray movies on those is jaw dropping big style. Normal DVD's up-scaled are pretty good but a true Blu-Ray movie is just awesome.

They are coming in around £15-20 at the moment with big films being a little bit more but the quality difference is just .....

The TV cost £500 and is Hitachi so you can buy much cheaper than you could.

The content of the Discs is about the same but I have noticed a proliferation of "deleted scenes" and on kids movies short films or cartoons extra. There's tons more space so they should fit much more on them once they start trying to push them.

I will say that when you see your first action scene on 1080p you will need to be sat down with nothing in your hands to spill and leave it at that for now

[Mankind]

A PC BD/HD combi player is only £83 now, it's worth getting a HTPC set up IMO.

I would use Bluray simply for the higher res video. If you already have a HDTV then it's a no-brainer. Best thing is to go to Currys or whatever and check out the quality, see if it tempts you or not

[Puratech]

You can get some uber cheap Blu-Ray setups now, but personally i would consider the idea of both BR and HDDVD together. The price of BR discs is pretty silly, especially for a single movie, where as a lot of people are panic selling their HDDVDs cheap on ebay and last time i looked you could get most hddvds for around £10 online. As youve already found out, any format will get replaced sooner or later anyway, so depends if u want upto date media or just rewatchable movies.

Id still love a 1080p plasma, but any 1080p lcd is pretty much fine, like with any tv check out the picture in store and look at random features and inputs available.


Personally im not that fussed about the HD stuff, even having watched 1080p stuff on a big lcd, its nice but not shockingly so. They should have gone higher tbh

[Mankind]

Originally Posted by Puratech

Personally im not that fussed about the HD stuff, even having watched 1080p stuff on a big lcd, its nice but not shockingly so. They should have gone higher tbh

lol yeah they should, 2560x1600 a la 30" PC monitors...

1920x1080 is only 24" monitor size, bit of a waste to stretch it to 40/50/60" panel size....

[Dawolf]

Originally Posted by Puratech

Personally im not that fussed about the HD stuff, even having watched 1080p stuff on a big lcd, its nice but not shockingly so. They should have gone higher tbh

Agreed


Taggy all players Domestic & Computer wise do & will in the future read normal DVD's so imo don't rush m8.

[teflon]

This is probably an ancient thread, so with the benefit of living in the future let me pass this back to those halcyon olden days.
DVD/HDDVD/Blue-Ray are all doomed because people in the future (now for me) just use hard drives, something called terrabytes and hinternets will soon envelop the surface of the planet and this will mean you can watch Spidermans just by clicking a mouse and waiting for bloody ages for it to download.
People in proper countries like Korea can probably stream 1080p by now. But Gordon Brown (he becomes Supreme Leader by the way) would rather spend the money on liason officers to inform transvestites when to put their bins out, instead of just buying a few optic fibres out of Radio Shack in America and shoving hinternets down them. Wait and see.

[Osborne]

Teflon forgot to mention that here in the future machines rule, Sarah Connor wasn't lying

I think TVs are going to be the next big thing, Sky+ is only the very beginning, like Tef said TV and the internet will pretty much merge and you can download movies in a matter of seconds in the quality of BLlue Ray.

I don't think Blue ray is a complete loss, I personally see the changes being made on the internet and the changes in TVs happening in around 10 years time.