“I have never seen a movie on Blue Ray.”
Sunday at 5:09 pm
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me either - Justin Korn
me neither. I don't even have a blu-ray player. Join the club :) - imabonehead
I keep meaning to. but, not yet. - jbrotherlove
What about Blu-Ray? :P - Donato (ricin)
Is the quality that much better than a 1080p upsized DVD player? I got one of those for $40. I think I can live with the difference until the blu ray prices drop under $100. - Kevin Shannon
Nor have I, though I am curious to see if it lives up to the hype. - Kevin Bondelli
We recently got a Blue-Ray player super cheap. Watching our first BR movie tonight. - Squirrel Girl
I just don't see how much clearer it can get than HD. I mean, yes..it can be higher quality...but will I really notice? It's almost like bitrates on mp3's, to me. Once you get to 128, can you really tell the difference? - ♫ Rahsheen™
Akiva can notice the difference. I cannot. - Rochelle
I'm skeptical. We would have never gotten one if it weren't offered as a bundle with our new TV. - Squirrel Girl
Players should go for around $200 this holiday season. Good time to grab one, or wait one more year and they will be a great price. - Tim Hoeck
Rahsheen .. some can, some can't. My wife still can't tell the difference with HD! :) If you have it on the right tv, with the right environment... it's pretty amazing. - Tim Hoeck
Rahsheen, I can here the difference between many 128 bitrate mp3s and say, 320 bitrate mp3s or uncompressed (which is why I now rip to FLAC). - jbrotherlove
If I had the means to show her a side-by-side comparison, I'm sure she'd notice the difference which is huge. - Akiva Moskovitz
I have, and it was pretty good. I have a PS3 and on a 52" Samsung LCD, I watched Ratatouille. Yay! - Will Higgins
I can tell the difference between a 128kbps MP3 and a 192kbps MP3...it gets very difficult to tell from there on up though. And if you can't tell the difference between SD and HD, then you don't have a big enough TV or need your eyes checked. - Alex Scoble CISSP
I've only seen some Blue Ray trailers. - Paul W. Swansen
I agree with Rahsheen that on a 50" TV it doesn't get any better than HD. However, going up from there it certainly would be nice to have affordable 4k resolution (4 times the current 1080p) and good line quadruplers, but such things are far away for most of us...you currently need to spend $200k or so to get such technology now for front projection. - Alex Scoble CISSP
I've only see one in Best Buy. - Mathew Ballard
I've never seen a movie in BluRay either. Then again, I don't watch all that many movies. At this point, only watch on my standard def TV. With the TiVo, I don't even have a DVD player hooked in at the moment. - Scott from Canada
Not here either, hidef screens, and some demos in stores, etc, but not in my house - Justin Yost
Only the demo versions in stores. - steplow = Steve Lowe
I haven't either. - Abby Martin
I should have movie night at my house. - Robert Scoble
I'll upgrade to HD and Blue Ray once I'm able to watch PG-13 movies with my family. Things like Lord of the Rings is still a bit too violent for them. - Mike Reynolds
The best way to experience Blu-ray is on a Plasma tv. There is a huge difference as compared to a normal DVD. Once you see a Blu-ray movie on a nice Plasma screen you'll be able to spot out the imperfections on a standard dvd. It's like video game consoles, when they're current -- you never can imagine the graphics being any better ... but they will get better. - Brandon
Also, just like DVDs, some Blu-ray transfers are better than others. The Blu-ray version of Arlington Road wasn't spectacular. The transfer for 2001, however, was simply unbelievable. And this is on a 'mere' four-year-old 36" Sony WEGA CRT. - Akiva Moskovitz
add me to the list .. I still havent seen Titanic .. people keep telling the boat sinks - johnpiercy
its not just a better video presentation, but the audio is very different. Yes, you need the theater setup to get the full effect, but if you have full dts 7.1 - blu ray movies sound better than the theater - John Head
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John, good point. We 'only' have 5.1 but we've recently upgraded our A/V unit. Going from Dolby Digital to TrueHD/DTS/Linear PCM (now all through HDMI) was like going from 128k MP3s to lossless FLAC. Well, for obvious reasons. - Akiva Moskovitz
don't bother with BR right now - It''s all about the digital file. Why limit yourself to a physical format when you could get the same HD quality from a file that you can transfer to whatever storage medium (capacity willing) you want. Physical format "wars" will make way for codec battles, without DRM getting in the way you wouldn't need to repurchase your collection whenever there's a new codec on the block. Streamable to any set top that can handle it & no "which box is the disc hiding in" roulette! - alphaxion
I don't have Blue Ray anything. - Morton Fox
I don't have BR either, and from what I read, it's don't going to last much longer anyway. It's not making the inroads it should, but the licensing is so expensive in any case. More to the point perhaps, the only DVDs I've purchased in the last 5-6 years have been the blank ones for the computers. - Ian May
Same here - Michael Hocter
I love my PS3. I just wish there were more Blu-ray movies available on Netflix. - Drew
I only own one Blu-ray movie, got it last year, still haven't watched it yet. - Logical Extremes
alphaxion, that sounds like wishful thinking (that I also wish was true). I'd love to have DRM-free HD movie files, but I really doubt the studios will be releasing those in the foreseeable future. - Logical Extremes
I have the Biohazard Trilogy (aka Resident Evil Trilogy) on Bluray, and a PS3 that I watch it on. But so far that is the only Bluray in my collection. - LonelyBob
We watched a movie on our blue-ray player last night and it looked awful. More specifically, the motion blur was ridiculous. It's probably the TVs fault, as we didn't go for the 120hz model when we bought it. I will say though, besides that, the resolution looked amazing. Much like HD TV does. - Squirrel Girl
