Was at the New Best Buy today(the one off cornell and 185th, and I believe I saw MC74.
Anyways, Im amazed at how very few titles are on Blue Ray DVD's.
And some of the movies they do have on Blu Ray are so stupid. For instance they have "Wild Things" on Blu Ray, yet I can't find Pulp Fiction on Blu ray. Whats up with that?? I assume more titles will be released on Blue Ray since they knocked out HD DVD.
Any Titles you want to see on Blu Ray? Or do you not give a crap about Blu Ray? After buying a 50 inch Plasma I really notice a difference between Blu Ray Dvd's and regular Dvd's. If its a movie I REALLY like, i will usually spend the extra $10 for the Blu Ray dvd.

Yup, you saw me.

Sadly I was not buying Blu ray, I was buying HD dvd movies. They discontinued them so now is the time to get them while they are cheap.

I just picked up Full metal jacket and Syky Captain and the world of Tomorrow for less then 30 bucks.

I have a Blu Ray movie player as well, but I figured I could get the same quality movies out now at a cheaper price.

MC74 the problem is I think HD DVD's are still not very cheap considering they will be gone soon. I saw some that were 25 bucks. You got a good deal on your Dvd's but most Hd Dvd's, just saw some at Target for 25 bucks WTF?

Speaking of WTF? Anbody know when Pulp fiction or the Kill Bill movies will be coming to Blu Ray?? I already own them on regular DVD BUT I'm so so used to watching Blu Ray Dvd's that it is starting to hurt my eyes watching them on regular DVD.

Technically, I did not buy those HD DVDs at best buy, I went across the street to FYE and bought them used there.

I believe best buy had a 30% off price of HD DVD sale going on. So you had to do the math yourself.

Personally, I think HD DVD is the better format. It has way more options available but for what ever reason Blu Ray won out.

Thats interesting you bought BOTH a Blu Ray player and an HD DVD player.

I think Blu Ray won over HD DVD was because Blu Ray can hold more space than HD DVD. Meaning if you get a REALLY LONG movie, HD DVDs would have to put the DVD on 2 discs instead of 1 disk like Blu Ray does. And what a pain in the ass it is to have the movie stop right in the middle, get up and put the second disc in. (reminds me of a laser disc).

Well I have a PS3 which is blu ray and I have an Xbox 360 which has HD DVD.


I just came across this article on best buy giving customers a 50 dollar gift card if they bought a HD DVD player.

http://tech.msn.com/news/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=6557952&icid=tg6557952?GT 1=40000

The cool thing about HD DVD was that some movies such as Knocked up are dual compatiable, they play in both HD DVD players as well as standard.

Blu ray didnt have that feature.

Thats a good point Mc74. I just bought "no Country for old men" on Blu Ray, went to my girlfriends house to watch it and realized she doesn't have a blu ray player. DOH! Guess I can only watch it at my place. Im just happy that one died(that being HD DVD) because I was getting tired of waiting to find out which one would survive and which one wouldn't.

My HD DVD list is as follows...

King Kong
300
Sky Captain
Full Metal Jacket
The Italian job
V for Vendetta (my altime favorite movie by the way)
Knocked up.

On Blu Ray I have Spider man three and the pirates of the caribean movies.

I personally thought HD DVD had a better selection but Blu Ray had Disney support.

On my LCD, I can't tell much difference between HD DVD and regular DVD but on "To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar", a regular DVD, the upconversion brings it up dramatically! I'm way back in the stone age by comparison but compared to the general population, I'm at the cutting edge!

You want stone age come to my house semoochie. 13 inch Zenith with bunny ears.

Hey Smooch HD DVD's and Blu Ray DVD's will make a much bigger difference on a bigger sized tv. If your watching it on a 25 incher you might not be able to tell the difference BUT if you are watching it on a huge 40 incher you can tell the difference of the picture. I know I can!

"13 inch Zenith"

This has Tom Peterson written all over it. But knowing Chris, he probably got the TV second handed, but I betcha this set originated at 82nd and Foster.

Some good assumptions for sure skep. Second hand is correct....you can thank my folks.

I am totally fighting this change over to HD broadcasting. Maybe I will see the light someday but for now my dad just bought a new flat screen so I can get my kicks over at his place.

I bet Sky Captain looks amazing.

I'm just not there yet either.

Funny too. I'm normally as geeky as it gets over these kinds of things.

The extra expense and it all not being open as NTSC is really is a turn off. There is the bang for buck factor too. A well mastered DVD, played on either a high end progressive scan NTSC CRT, or newer HDTV looks great!

The new hi-def stuff looks better, but not so much better that it changes the dynamic. It seems there is a minimum resolution necessary for people to really get into the movie. VHS was just below that, S-video hit the mark, and from there it's just gravy.

Good news is both hi-def formats have been cracked. If that stands for a while, I'll probably upgrade slowly over the next few years.

It's also now possible to build your own hi-def DVR with Linux. Those two together are kind of my baseline needed to move to the newer display and media distribution technologies.

Not a piracy thing with me either. I buy most everything and never underestimate the bandwidth of your postal carrier! Round trip latency is high, but bits moved per dollar (Netflix!!) is just unbeatable.

Here's an interesting metric. I can go hit the usual dark corners of the net and download a bunch of content, burn it, watch it, toss it. This takes one or two busy days of searching, downloading, burning, etc... Lots of my attention is required during that process.

Netflix means only a small fraction of my direct attention time, and nearly the same result! Sweet!

Anyway, it's the fact that I might want to do something, make backups, copy for a friend to watch (lost too many originals over the years to do otherwise, sorry), use the display with my own creations, etc... Open is kind of baseline mandatory in that way.

It's all getting there though --just way more slowly than I would like. Blame the attorneys and board rooms for that one.

It's a 42 inch model. I said I can't tell MUCH difference. It must be more apparent with plasma.

Redirected my post to dev/null, carry on......

You're on a subject near and dear to my heart with 1800 standard DVDs and about 75 Blu-rays in house.

Blu-ray has a magic to it that's hard to explain. I don't have HD-DVD, but I assume it would be the same. The extreme resolution gives a feeling of looking at a real scene.

I was really surprised at how good standard DVDs are upscaled by my Panasonic BD30 player. The end result seems about half way between SD and BR on my 7' wide screen fed with a Panasonic high def projector.

Just watched Lucky You in SD. What a great movie. Very well done. All poker all the time and I can't stand gambling nor the Vegas atmosphere. That says something about the movie.

WOW Deane I didn't even think Blu-Ray made 75 DVd's, But thats cool, I just hope they get some better titles on Blu-Ray. After looking over the selection of Blu-Ray Dvd's at Best Buy, Fred Meyers ect, the selection is PAthetic. No Tarantino movies, very few cohen brothers movies, whats up with that?

Now that there's one standard, it will probably pick up.

How has this influenced your buying habits? such as:

1. I ONLY buy Blu-ray now even though I may pass on some desirable titles that are not yet available.

2. I buy Blu-ray if it available for a particular movie, but will buy standard if it is not.

3. Some titles MUST be in Blu-ray (great special effects or other reasons) others are just fine in standard.

4. I have even started to replace older titles in my collection with Blu-ray.

Other game plans?

Give Blu Ray a few more years and IT will be the standard, infact I think in 2 years all other DVDS will be gone and you will only have BLU RAY dvd's available. Might as well start buying them Now even though they are really pricey 28-32 buck for each Blu Ray(ouch)If you are a movie geek like me than you will run out and replace the Dvd's you already own with Blu-Ray Dvd's.
Regular DVD's are soooooo 2000. Infact My eyes hurt when I watch a regular DVD on my 50 inch Plasma.

I'm glad I haven't bought either!

Although my son's PS3 will play the blu-ray disks.

We don't have a HDTV yet so it doesn't really matter to us yet.

"I think in 2 years all other DVDS will be gone"

I think not. Redbox type rentals is taking off at the expense of stores like Hollywood Video. I don't see them forking out for all BluRay until they have killed off all the competition then can jack the price up. Besides, classics like Dr. Strangelove is gonna look even more terrific on BluRay than SD DVDs -- NOT!

I'd say 8 years.