I have no problem discerning Blu Ray from DVD.... I would only buy a blu ray if it is cheap Like when they had Fringe Season 1 for 24.95... Still waiting for Amazon to have Season 2 at that price.

I see some people say BD for short for Blueray. Where the heck does the "D" come in?

Blu-Ray Disc...

Having a PS3 and an HDTV, Blu-Ray was just kind of something I stumbled upon. It does look amazing, in my opinion. I have Avatar on Blu-Ray and I don't think I've ever seen a clearer image and I've never noticed any unreasonable amount of hype, so yes, it did live up to the supposed hype, for me. :shrug:

im a fan of un-mastered versions. Hell, im stuck on laserdiscs. :whistling:

I bought 28 Weeks Later on Blu-Ray a few years ago. It looked pretty good, but $40 for a movie is way too much for my frugality.

BluRay definitely is a lot more clear than standard DvD's. I'm a huge movie buff and I have a LOT of DvD's, and I watch a lot of movies, and when I got my collection on BluRay, the difference is really night and day. If you can't see it I don't know what to tell you, either you're not looking hard enough, not paying attention to the right things, or just trolling, because the difference is that huge.

The only Blue Ray I've watched are my F3 and F:NV collecters edition DVDs on it. But honestly, I feel Blue Ray and HD TV are just fads. I've only noticed drastic differences with HD on video games, but TV is barely any different than standard. As I said, both are merely fads in my mind. Hell, I don't own a single Blue Ray DVD aside from those two discs from my set.

I don't see how you can say something is a "fad" when it's a clear cut upgrade from it's predecessor. The difference between DVD's and BluRay is pretty drastic, both visually and audibly.

I've yet to get an HDTV or BD player, but from what I've seen and from what I've heard from others, I can firmly say that you CAN have too much of a good thing. Sometimes the greater resolution, sharpness, and detail that high def adds actually detracts from the ambiance of the story itself. It's counterintuitive, but I do in some cases (but certainly not all) prefer DVD to BD.

I don't really care that much about blu-ray. There's no denying that blu-ray look better, but DVDs sure look good enough for me. That said, I do have 20+ movies on blu-ray, but that's rather small compared to my ~600 DVD collection

I only bothered to buy the blu-ray version of movies that I find truly special, or because they were very cheap

The step between video tapes and DVDs was much larger for me.

Have any of you watched remastered classics on blu-ray on a really good, large HDTV or projector?

The Shining
Apocalypse Now
Bladerunner
North By Northwest
Psycho
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Hunger
The Searchers
A Clockwork Orange
True Grit (original)
Realm of the Senses
Total Recall
The Godfather
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I could go on and on. (looking forward to buying http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Stanley-Kubrick--Limited-Edition-Collection-Blu-ray/20820/ in May.)

Watching restored classics on blu-ray is an amazing experience akin to traveling through time. I've always been a fan of Bladerunner, Apocalypse Now, The Shining, anything by Hitchcock or Kubrick, but the digitally restored blu-ray releases are orders of magnitude better than the old prints I've seen dusted off and dragged out for festivals. If you enjoy going to the cinema, you will enjoy watching these on a large, good quality HDTV or projector.

I don't own a PS3, but I assume the blu-ray playback is comparable to most stand-alone blu-ray players, right? Incidentally, does the Xbox or Wiii play blu-rays? (I don't own any consoles)

Blue ray doesn't really enhance the experience for me, unlike DVD's compared to VCRs, so no, I was dissapointed

It absolutely lived up the "hype" for me, I love having my movies on Blu-ray. Watching DVDs on a 1080p screen is a pretty bad experience, while watching Blu-rays is a wonderful experience (for most Blu-rays, some have pretty poor transfers). I only buy movies in Blu-ray these days, I can't actually remember that last DVD I actually bought.

Not personally owning a blu-ray player myself, I watch them a lot over my brother-in-law's, and I really see the difference in quality on many of the movies he owns. As far as the extra content potential goes . . . that's another story.

Never watched a blu-ray film in my life, so given how I am not yet spoiled by the higher quality ordinary DVDs still work fine for me. The higher storage capacity seems really nice though, than I wouldn't need a bazillion disks for Lost.

I'd have to say it does live up to the hype for me when the transfer is done well. The higher resolution quality and especially the HD sound formats can be quite amazing with the right Home Theater setup. Watching Band of Brothers in 1080p on a 60" HDTV with DTS-HD MA sound is nothing short of awesome.

You can often find BluRay discs being cheaper than the DVD counterparts these days if you keep an eye out on sales. I find myself not spending more than $13 on a movie unless of course it's something like BoB. There's always lots of $8-$10 sales going on.

I don't really enjoy watching DVD's after experiencing Blu-Ray unless I have to. Because the image quality compared to the DVD movies I have can be up to ten fold better sometimes. I don't have a home theater so the sound is the same for me usually. But I've been buying all my favorites on BD for the past couple of months. Never spending more than $16 tops on them. I got the entire LOTR trilogy for $45 ($15 each) instead of the silly $80 for the bundle, I just bought them separately and I don't notice the problems with it that some other posters have. I'm probably going to buy the extended cut versions when they come out on BD as well.

I do still watch/buy DVD's though, when they're not available on BD or..BD is too expensive and I'm impatient. Like all 4 Lethal Weapons. I didn't notice the bad quality that much with them, but when it's dark on the screen you can see the pixelation and it's kind of distracting. But yeah, lives up to my hype..and if it's available on BD, I usually won't watch it on anything but that. Guys at work don't really understand why, you just have to experience it first, for the most part.

Without doubt, Blu-Ray offers more. If you try to watch a HD movie on anything larger than 30", Blu-Ray's higher quality becomes noticeable...more so on even larger sets.

That said, I agree that maybe a lot of Blu-Ray discs are not true Blu-Ray and DVDs are getting shorted in favor of making people buy the Blu-Ray version.

Haven't yet seen any. I don't watch many movies, and the ones i do watch i haven't found as cheap Blu-Rays yet. Also i hear watching Blu-Ray movies is a good way to kill one's PS3; that the laser is cheap and doesn't take the constant stress of movie playing too good.

I must have ignored the hype, so I can't vote. In any case, it's pretty much what I expected it to be and that's higher resolution and uncompressed audio option. I'm not buying any more DVD's though and I rarely even buy Blu-Rays. The dozen Blu-Rays I have I've watched on the PS3 and it still works just fine after 2-3 years. The quality varies on the dics. Some are just simple copies from the DVD, more or less, and I've been disappointed, but some are good and I'm happy I bought them on Blu-Ray and not on DVD. I haven't actually bought both versions of each movie just to compare, but why would I spend more than twice the money to do that if I already watched it in Full HD. If you think there was no difference to SD, maybe you have a bad TV or happened to buy one of the lousy discs.

Didn't ever buy one or any BD's so other for me I guess. I didn't see the point when I could stream HD video via Netflix for less than 10 a month opposed to buying one 1 bluray for 30. :shrug:

It took my mom a few years to make the transition. Still has all her video tapes and a VCR to watch them.

On that note; We still use CRT TVs.

CR...what?

I haven't had one in about 4 years.

I have a blu-ray burner and a 1080p monitor, and it is a very big difference.

Evangelion 1.11 in particular is amazing on blu-ray. Yes it's a remake, but it's amazing in HD. (http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/3721/rei2q.jpg - http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/6357/rei1n.jpg)