2. Watch a movie like "The Assassination of Jesse James..." on Blu-ray. There is nothing fakey, or digital looking about it. It's beautiful.

3. Remember when HD-DVD was being trumpeted here last summer? That was a fun time.

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You guys is so silly

digital downloads...heh.

MT

Had I stuck with a huge CRT tv, maybe an old massive Sony Wega trinitron I would have had the same effect with normal dvds. But buying the new tv has FORCED me to upgrade to HD for the higher quality. Has this made me blu-ray out? Actually no, it's made me go in another direction. You see I also have an xbox 360, so I forked out the whole £25 bucks, that's like $40 or something to you yanks. and got myself an HD-DVD drive with batman begins & V for Vendetta thrown in. Problem solved. In the UK HD-DVDs are on sale for as little as £3.50, while Blu-Rays are still £17.99 with players costing exorbitant amounts.

Granted I'll only get maybe....300 movies if I scour the internet for all the cool movies on HD-DVD, but it'll be a 1/5 of the price were I to try and get that same collection on Blu-ray, and it looks and sounds just as good.

And I'm not alone, at least 3 of my mates ahve done the same and I'll probably convince my brother as well. For the moment, unless theres a specific new movie you MUST HAVE on Blu-ray. Why break the bank?

Blu-ray will succeed because, in a short time, (you can quote me on this) they'll simply stop selling DVD players, i.e. once blu-rays hit the £100 mark, they'll just sell them. Now when Joe public goes out and buys a player which says, THIS WILL PLAY ALL YOUR OLD DVDS AND BLU RAYS! they'll just say. hmm maybe I'll but some films on Blu-ray instead. Some time later, maybe a year, probably less, the DVDs will cease production and Blu-rays will be the only things releasing new films. I'm not saying this will happen overnight, but it will happen.

Saying that people will trust to downloadables is putting too much faith in A: technology, B: people's trust in things and C: people not caring about having movie collections they can actually SEE.

. DVD players will disappear simply because Blu-ray players will eventually reach the point that they are so cheap that it will no longer be necessary to sell DVD-only players. I mean maybe a tesco value dvd player for £4.99 built by pappa chans home-shack electric supplies in Yemen but nothing of quality.

A product only exists in mass production while it hasn't been superceeded by a superior product. Find me the dedicated CD-rom drives for PCs, on sale from your local hardware store. they don't exist because it's more cost effective to make and sell dvd-drives now.

Also you aren't listening to the reasons. Blu-ray players will have halfed in price by 2010 and again by 2012. Once they're below the £100 mark, do you see any reason that manufacturers will continue to churn out DVD players that will by necessity be dirt cheap? What's in it for them? They'll make far better profits through selling Blu-ray. Ergo, the DVD players will disappear from the shelves. From there it's only a year or two more before DVD as a continually produced format is no longer economically viable. Then we'll see DVD begin to vanish from the shelves the same way VHS slowly slipped away.

It's basic economics. Same thing Ras Al Ghul tried to destroy Gotham City with.....

ALL it said was that by 2012, SALES of Blu-Ray would be higher than DVD. That isn't an unreasonable prediction at all.

For those of you who say that there isn't much difference between DVD and Blu-Ray...look, you're entitled to your opinion. And if you look at the two and say that Blu-Ray isn't worth the extra investment to you, well, that's perfectly valid. But if you really don't see much difference, then either you're using bad equipment, using very poorly-calibrated equipment, or are legally blind.

To those who say it looks too "false" -- too bright, not film-like, and so on -- remember that displays, etc. in stores are badly configured. Out of the box, most TVs are set up in some kind of "vivid" mode that cranks up the color saturation, brightness, etc. It will grab your attention -- especially if it's demoing some Pixar thing -- but it's about the worst way to view live-action film, and it will cause exactly the problems you're describing.

Also, some releases on Blu-Ray have had digital noise reduction applied in order to remove grain -- and in many cases, video detail has been removed as well. This is unfortunate, but of course in the early days of DVD we saw some pretty ridiculous things done too, right?

Go rent yourself a PS3 or Blu-Ray player, then rent the Blu-Ray release of 2001. If that doesn't fry your eyeballs with insane quality, then there's no helping you.

what was weird was that all of the movies they were playing looked shittier than the regular dvd version EXCEPT pirates 3. pirates 3 still had the film grain and looked like it did in theaters. just my 2 cents.

But no HD is very ace. But I wouldn't tell anyone it's necessary unless their the kind of person who used to but superbit DVDs

In the Meanwhile I'm filling the gaps in my DVD collection with rediculously cheap boxsets I could never aford before!

I have a voucher for the Video store though so I'm sorely tempted by There Will Be Blood on Blue-ray regardless of cost for my Birthday!

Must

Resist!

Argh!

Lo vely,

Shiny!

Blue...

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I do get worked up about ignorant illiterates. When people read the above article and then say that no way will people own more Blu-Ray players than DVD players by 2012, then those people are illiterate, or ignorant, or both, because the article says no such thing. Also, people who say that Blu-Ray will be dead and downloadable content will be pervasive by 2012 and claim that it's *fact* are ignorant, because it's not fact at all.

The cable companies have it right. On demand. HD. Game over.

My blu-ray discs just became fancy, expensive drink coasters.

It was shot on 16mm and duped to 35mm. They tried to get the finest grain they could on the 16mm but the speed was so damn slow (faster film=more grainy but you can shoot with less light) that it was a nightmare to shoot. That's why you have stuff like the van scenes where the windows are blown out. Sometimes you blow out the exposure in windows intentionally to cover up that you're not actually driving or that there's only a painted backdrop outside the set, or to give a 'hot' look (Out of Sight for example), but that's not what happened here. They couldn't afford to film on 35mm and chose the finest grain 16mm to get as close as possible but had to live with the consequences!

At this very moment, in the United States, it's still profitable for companies to release 4:3 versions of movies on DVD. This means that there is a huge portion of the media-buying public that hasn't even embraced widescreen yet, let alone a superior digital format. As long as Joe Blow still wants discs "without them thar black bars messin' up the pitcher" there is no fucking way Blu-Ray will overtake DVD by 2012.

I have an iPod with thousands of MP3s on it, but I have backed up every single one of them on CDs and DVDs. If you keep all your movies and music on a hard drive and the thing breaks, then you are dumb fucks who DESERVE to lose your entire collections.

Besides, I don't know any geeks who don't consider owning movies and music in a physical form an integral part of being geeks and collectors. Physical media will NEVER disappear. If you believe otherwise, you are deluding yourselves.