I was reading the PS3 thread, and some people say they don't care for Blueray, and prefer or happy with DVD. That got me thinking, that yeah, Blueray didn not live up to it's hype for me. When they first came out, only 10% of Bluerays coming out actually had Blueray content on it, and the other 90% was basically like a DVD but just put on a Blueray so it can be charged $30 or more.

Now DVDs coming out don't have much extras, just the basics now, and if you want extra you need to get it on Blueray. Problem is I don't find Blueray that much different from DVD. Only a few moives wowed me, Wall-E is one of the few that is a must on Blue Ray. Most blue rays I got were garbage and I should have stuck with regular DVDs now. Only time I get Blue ray is if the regular DVD doesn't have deleted and or extended scenes. Good thing this doesn't happen too much, but still I prefer to get regular DVD now unless it's in a combo package.

I think it's a joke because nobody (unless you are James Cameron)is using Blueray to it's full potential. What happened to all the great and awsome features we were suppose to get? I just don't see them. I haven't bought a blue ray in over a year.

So what do you think? Did Blueray live up to the hype?

i like my dvd's
so no
reason?
i have a lot of movies

I've not yet bought any BD movies, as I'e yet to buy a blu-ray player, as I don't have an HDTV

I honestly can't see the difference between normal HD DVDs which are the norm and blu-ray.

If you have a decent and sufficiently large 1080p TV or projector, you will notice the difference.

I don't care much for all the extras and lame pop-up menus, but watching any blu-ray on my 1080p projector the quality is better than watching a movie in most cinemas.

If you don't want to shell out for retail blu-ray discs, get a netflix account with blu-ray enabled.

HD DVDs aren't the norm, they are dead

that said, there was no quality difference between HD DVDs and BDs, the difference was BDs could store more stuff.

Not like he did :whistling:

Well I rarely watch movies on DVD anyway, just watch what's on TV/record a movie on DVR, and go watch them at the theaters. I also don't see the obsession with better quality, but that's just me.

I hate dvd quality it's absolutely horrible. Never tried watching blu rays but I plan on buying a blu ray drive in the future.

On a 1080p TV, the difference between Blu-Ray and DVD is pretty obvious. I don't know about hype, but better resolution is my main reason for caring, which they provide.

I love Blu-Ray it is awesome. It lived up to the hype for me.

I find them to be a huge waste of time. In my honest opinion, they make movies look a lot worse than DVD. I tried watching Lord of the Rings on BD (and yes it was an HD-TV, so you can stop mounting your pedestal about that) and it looked absolutely ridiculous. It looked like a bloody pop-up book. There is zero justification for the high price point of BD and no one is using it to its full potential. You'd think that someone out there would look at a disk that can hold 25/50GB and think "Hmm, I can fit entire TV series on that. How convenient!", but no. Instead you get South Park in HD on the same number of bloody disks as it is on DVD. Why the hell do you need South Park in HD anyway? It's 2-dimensional!

Anyway, blu-ray svcks balls.

I like the format. There are some bad transfers, but a lot of my favorite films were done really well and look/sound noticeably better than on DVD. The fact that Blu-ray versions can be had for the same price (give or take a few bucks) as DVDs makes it even more attractive. No reason not to get Blu-ray if it and DVD are within ~$5.

The protective coating on the discs themselves is also a plus. I've seen BD slid across rough surfaces with nary a scratch or scuff to be found.

Do you find movies projected in cinemas to have the same quality?

It's hard to say, but I don't believe they do. If they did, I'd find going to the cinema to be annoying, but I love it.

On my projector, which is mounted much closer to my screen than the screen distance of a typical cinema projector, the BD image is huge and crisp, the quality is significantly better than most movie theaters. It provides the luxurious feeling of having a cinema in my own living room.

Perhaps your problem is not with the format itself, as it's simply a high resolution version of the movie. I work in film and we have used blu-ray discs for promotional cinema screenings on various occasions - often viewers cannot tell whether the film was screened on 35mm or blu-ray. When played on a sufficiently large, good quality 1080p television or projector, blu-ray movies should look gorgeous by any standards.

The Lord of the Ring was a rather poor transfer unfortunately. Some films are hampered by way too much noise reduction, which in turn makes the image quality terrible. I believe this was the case with LotR, among other things. Had the studio transferred it correctly, it would have been much better. There are also some settings on certain HDTVs that can make movies look pretty bad, à la "soap opera effect," which is caused by the HDTV taking a 24 FPS source and injecting additional frames to make it closer to 29 FPS. Makes video seem less choppy, but it can also make movies look awful.

Also, animation benefits from Blu-ray just as much as anything else, and in some cases more. After watching films like Evangelion 1.11, The Princess and the Frog, Beauty and the Beast, Up, etc., watching DVD versions on a decent size HDTV makes artifacts and any macroblocking stick out like a sore thumb.

Well they do let us store up to 50GB on our game discs, and for films the picture quality is great, but the range of stuff isn't as big as it is for DVD.

I can see the difference between Blu-ray and regular DVD, but I just prefer DVDs more. I like that my movies--which are fake--don't look real. I've got an HDTV and we still play nothing but DVDs and Netflix on it. The resolution would be the only reason I'd consider Blu-ray.

That, and I never thought Blu-ray really looks that real. What is it, 24fps or something? It just seems so unnatural.

No, I still don't have a blueray player in any capacity. Ergo, I have yet to derive any utility from the format.

The storage capacity on the discs is why I like them, and they look a LOT better than DVD's on my HDTV.

It looks okay but I never cared much for HD and blue-ray.

I only own one movie on blu-ray, but I like it. :shrug:

As far as films go, I've only bought a few of them on Blu-ray, some of my favorites. I've only really noticed an increased quality on a few of them. It's not always in the graphical department, sometimes the audio will be terrific.

I do, however, love Blu-ray when it comes to games. The extra space on the disc is awesome when developers really utilize it.

Even though I have had a PS3 for about a month now I have yet to watch anything on a blu-ray disc.