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mikecoscia
12/22/08

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If you can't hear/see a difference between dvd and blu-ray audio/video, than you are either fooling yourself or do not have the hardware to take advantage of it.

I bet most who say they are happy with DVDs are watching them on a 720p set with some home theater in a box. Please of course you are not going to get any improvement.

Watch a blu-ray on anything larger than 40" or better yet a 1080p projector, hooked up to a nice 5.1 or 7.1 system that can decode DTS-HD or True HD, and you will see and hear what blu-ray is all about.
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OMG! Ponies!
12/22/08

@mikecoscia: Or, some people might have slight hearing loss from living in a loud urban environment and/or have less-than-perfect eyesight.

I ride subways and need new glasses every year. Does the fact that I can't see a noticeable difference between upconverted DVD at 1080i and Blu-Ray at 1080i from 8 feet away make me a bad person? No, it means that I know what's good enough.

I don't have a sound-proof living room, nor do I have blackout curtains. I do have better things to spend money on.

It sounds like you don't understand the concept of age-related hearing loss or progressively worsening vision impairment.
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ceilingFANBOY
12/22/08

@mikecoscia: Well, considering I can tell a difference on my 32" 720p from upconverted DVD and Blu-Ray, these people are most likely just fooling themselves or blind. That, or they could be people that have never watched a Blu-Ray in a house, just at a store with bright lights and from 20 feet away, and claim to be an expert on what Blu-Ray images look like.
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ripfire
12/22/08

@mikecoscia: Oh I could definitely see the difference. It's just that the huge dollar signs are blocking my view.
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St3v3
12/22/08

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Blu Ray is just holding everyone over until HD movies are sold almost exclusively as a download. Just waiting on data storage to get even cheaper and the tubes to get faster. My guess is in about 5 years.
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balls187
12/23/08

@St3v3: It makes sense, but the United States' broadband infrastructure would not support streaming HD content that is Bluray quality.
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tetris2
12/22/08

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The market just isn't ready to accept BluRay because quite frankly an upconverted DVD looks damn good. Also doesn't help that BluRay discs are significantly more expensive than DVDs.
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winshape
12/22/08

@tetris2: Seriously. Movie studios are going down the exact same path that the recording studios did with CD's. The Dark Knight made a billion dollars world-wide...but the blu-ray disc is $30??? Screw that. I'm sitting this generation out.
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ceilingFANBOY
12/22/08

@winshape: The $25 that I paid for Dark Knight and Nightmare Before Christmas is the highest I have paid for any movie on Blu-Ray. That is only $2 more than what the two disc special edition of Dark Knight cost which you have to compare the Blu-Ray to in order to be fair, and is the same price that the Nightmare Before Christmas DVD cost. If you aren't lazy and spend a little bit of time shopping around, you should be able to find almost any Blu-Ray movie, even new releases, for between $17 and $25, and when compared to the special edition DVDs that they most commonly are the equivalent to, they are usually only about $2 more expensive.
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Monty
12/22/08

@tetris2: It may be that I am looking at poor systems for converting up DVD's to 1080p, but there really is not much of a comparison. A Blu-ray movie, even on a 34" screen, looks significantly better than a DVD. Is it worth replacing your library of movies? Heck, no. But, I would never say that a DVD can look anything close to Blu-ray quality, even on a small TV.

I think the biggest surprise in the price drops is what it is doing to sales of the PS3. That system is (was?) the Blu-ray player of choice, but now that you can pick up a stand-alone player for $100 less, relatively few people are buying it.

Sony, sometimes you are your own worst enemy.
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balls187
12/23/08

@tetris2: You're giving an opinion: upconverted DVD's look nearly as good as blu-ray. That's debatable, and techincally impossible. 1080p source content has nearly 6x the information (resolution) as a 480p NTSC dvd. No matter how signal manipulation; you just can't produce a comparable image.

I would suspect that bluray's penetration is low right now, because HDTV set's only have a marginal penetration. DVD's gave you a much better image on your existing TV set. Unless you have an HDTV, you wouldn't get any advantage out of bluray.
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