Back in the HD/BRay wars, I predicted HD would win early on. I was wrong. Even with Blu-ray becoming the modern medium of movies, I've been hesitant to join in, Instead, I've been opting to purchase downloadable content, as I feel we'll largely skip Blu-Ray.
Despite this, I now own my first Blu-ray; Sherlock Holmes (admittedly, it's a combo pack with DVD and download, too). Am I late to the party, or are others just now getting in to Blu-Ray? Do you think it will have a shorter life than VHS or DVD?
I'm planning to get some blu ray DVDs when I get a job. Ponyo and This Is It.
I got a PS3 a year and a half back or so which obviously contained Blu-Ray. Haven't used it much at all.
I just got Blu-Ray for Christmas, and while it looks nicer, it doesn't sell it fully for me. And yes, with downloaded movies (and the ability to rent right to your T.V.) I think that Blu-ray will be more on the buy market than the renting.
I have a Blu-Ray player, but we only have a few Blu-Ray movies.
For one, they're way expensive. That being said, they do look gorgeous on my 50".
Sherlock Holmes and LotR Trilogy are all I really have, though.
I don't have a Blu-ray, I've compared it to my nice upscaling DVD player, & the extra quality to ZOMGprice factor isn't enough for me. I'll stick to Netflix. & my ridiculously large DVD collection that I'd rather not recreate.
I got my PS3, and I've had it for a while now, but I didn't get my first Blu-Ray movie until recently, when I bought Zombieland.
It cost me about 23 dollars, and had an extra incentive. The digital copy for my comp/ipod was definitely a nice plus.
My laptop has a Blu-Ray Drive built in, but I've only watched something over a crappy Plasma display.
blu-ray really hasn't been that successful. The movies are very expensive, the players are expensive, and the quality difference between HD and blu-ray just is not worth that kind of price for the majority of people. Hopefully sometime in the near future it will be feasible to get 4K quality into homes. The difference between HD and 4K is large enough that everyone will sort of say "Wow, I can't watch tv in HD anymore" and upgrade. That's what happened from standard quality to HD, but HD to blu-ray in my opinion just isn't worth it.
I don't care enough about quality to waste my time buying Blu-Ray or HD. We only have HD because my dad insisted on it, but I don't use the feature. Honestly, you can't really tell the difference. I don't know about Blu-Ray. All I know is that I have Netflix, and I'm fine with their online quality and their shipped movie quality.
But I don't know, nice TV's and all of that is more of a guy thing, I guess.
Well, now that I've actually watched a Blu-Ray...they're definitely a major improvement over standard definition DVDs.