What compelled you to finally get DVD? LOTR?
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Around 2000 or so I purchased a new PC with a DVD-ROM drive. My first DVDs, Apocalypse Now Redux and 2001: A Space Odyssey, came a year or two later. I didn't own a standalone DVD player until purchasing a PS3 a year or two back, which is of course a Blu-Ray player also. I've yet to purchase any Blu-Rays, primarily on account of their price, however I'll pick up Star Trek and the LOTR EEs when they're released. I'd like to get Sunshine when it comes down in price also, and have avoided picking it up on DVD in anticipation of that.
Good god, let me just redo that awful paragraph of mine, since it was so riddled with typos. Fixed.
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To answer the topic question, First Contact & PS2 convinced me of the power of dvd. There was a quantum leap in tech from VHS to DVD, plus you had games now on DVD, so the purchase of a DVD player was an easy one.
Now, as far a Blu Ray..... i think that whole format was DOA. Sure, the picture of Blu Ray is better than DVD, but it's not like the VHS to DVD difference. As far as HD sound, there is virtually no difference between Blu ray and 5.1 unless your entertainment center is a movie theatre.
I've read that the next gen DVDs are only a couple years away and the quality is supposed to crap on BR, so I see no sense in getting Blu Ray and never will. Waste of a format as far as I'm concerned.
yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh boooyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
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And what are you going to display these next-gen discs on, exactly? Nothing is going to challenge Blu-Ray for home media in the conceivable future, the only possible use for higher density discs is to offer entire seasons of television on one disc, and that's not something the studios are particularly interested in doing in any case.
>HD is not going to get off the ground because 1080p is close to the resolving power of the human eye at the screen sizes and viewing distances dictated by home design. There was a technological need for Blu-Ray, there is no such need for "better than Blu-Ray" in the home market. The most likely threat to Blu-Ray's continued encroachment on the home market is broadband internet. I'd put money on Blu-Ray being the last disc-based home media format we'll see.
Sony and Toshiba were willing to hemorrhage so much money on their war precisely because they see this as a long-term format, longer-term than DVD.
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never underestimate the need of more disc space for video game discs + computer use. the price of blu ray is too prohibitive since the improvement over dvd is minimal. it will sell to those with disposable income because it's the only option, but it will never be remotely close to dvd in terms of popularity. dvd will be the standard for the next 5 years, and by then, a next generation product gets a foothold, whatever it may be, and blu ray gets passed up.
The first movie that I purchased in DVD format was Blade Runner (the Director's Cut). I purchased the DVD shortly before I purchased a player.
The first movie that I purchased in Blu Ray format was Blade Runner (the Final Cut). I purchased the Blu Ray shortly before I purchased a player.
The first movie that I purchased in Blu Ray format was Blade Runner (the Final Cut). I purchased the Blu Ray shortly before I purchased a player.
I began my DVD viewing because of the PS2. I was buying the PS2 anyway for games, and I figured I would try DVDs since my PS2 could play those too (even though you had to buy the remote to make it work). The first DVD I owned was Independence Day (given to me as a Christmas gift)
I ended up getting into Blu-Ray because of PS3, but not as enthusiastically. Basically, I ran out and bought a 60GB PS3 before they went out of stock so that I could have the PS2 hardware in there for full 100% backward compatibility; if it hadn't been for that sense of urgency to get the last of the better hardware, I probably still wouldn't have a PS3. The first BD I owned was Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer.
I ended up getting into Blu-Ray because of PS3, but not as enthusiastically. Basically, I ran out and bought a 60GB PS3 before they went out of stock so that I could have the PS2 hardware in there for full 100% backward compatibility; if it hadn't been for that sense of urgency to get the last of the better hardware, I probably still wouldn't have a PS3. The first BD I owned was Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer.
Actually the increase on Blu ray from DVD (visually speaking) is far greater then the increase from VHS to DVD (though you might not have a TV that allows you to see that difference). I don't have great sound so I can't actually say how big of increase that has (if any), and obviously the size difference is also there (though probably not as significant as the size difference between VHS to DVD) for storage space.
I don't remeber if it was for a particular movie but just got tired of vhs...just got my blu-ray player just before Christmas last year now any movie moving forward will be blu-ray...can't wait for LOTR triliogy and Star Wars in this format as well....Star Trek movies will be very soon..
What pushed me into Blu-Ray was my favorite IMAX film, Chronos. I bought its Blu-Ray release the first chance I got. It was even before I had a player to play it on.
I can't remember the first standard DVD I ever got. I think it might have been Odyssey into the Mind's Eye or Planetary Traveler.
I can't remember the first standard DVD I ever got. I think it might have been Odyssey into the Mind's Eye or Planetary Traveler.
We got a computer with a DVD player in 2001, I didn't actually get any DVDs to play on it until Christmas 2002, when I got Episode II.
I won't be buying a Blu-Ray player until I get a new tv, which won't be for a few years yet, my Philips 29" CRT is still working perfectly, and besides, I don't have a spare few grand lying around to spend on a good - not to mention big, it'll have to be at least 40" - LCD atm.
I won't be buying a Blu-Ray player until I get a new tv, which won't be for a few years yet, my Philips 29" CRT is still working perfectly, and besides, I don't have a spare few grand lying around to spend on a good - not to mention big, it'll have to be at least 40" - LCD atm.
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Which doesn't translate to success as a home media format.
The improvements of any successor format over Blu-Ray will be far less significant for most consumers than the improvements Blu-Ray offers over DVD.
The greatest risk to Sony is that the adoption of Blu-Ray will be slow enough, and the growth of internet infrastructure rapid enough, that much of the market will transition directly from DVD to video-on-demand services. The chances of a mass market disc-based competitor upstaging Blu-Ray within the next decade are remote.
Some time in the late 90's...first few I got were Top Gun, Crimson Tide, Lost in Space, as I recall. Watched on my PC.
Okay don't laugh... but when I bought my first DVD player - a Magnavox that's still working to this day too! - was... and don't effin' laugh... Star Trek:Nemesis.
Yep. And I fraggin' loved the movie. Then we went out and it was like kind a candy store time when I went to Blockbuster and started picking up all kinds of DVDs LOL. Then I started gradually adding to the collection to the point where I have no idea how many DVDs I've got now LOL
Yep. And I fraggin' loved the movie. Then we went out and it was like kind a candy store time when I went to Blockbuster and started picking up all kinds of DVDs LOL. Then I started gradually adding to the collection to the point where I have no idea how many DVDs I've got now LOL
