Blu-Ray just not "catching on"
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I can only say what's stopping us: and that is it. We bought a Toshiba HD player for Heroes and TOS first season in HD. When they lost, my husband said no blu-ray until it's under $200 bucks. That's all he paid for the Toshiba; and in fact, he figured the blu-rays would be under $200 by Christmas. It's kind of a magic number, I guess. (The HD player upconverts regular DVD's nicely; we don't use the previous players anymore. It's still worth it.)
I agree completely with this.
Exactly, I'd need to buy a large screen HD TV in order to make any difference to begin with. So I include a BS HD TV as part of the Blue Ray set-up.
How many classic television shows are even on blue ray? Aside from Trek, that is. I'd say 95% of my DVD's do not have a blue ray equivalent.
Blu-Ray is expensive and unnecessary. Its not all that of an upgrade over regular dvds. The industry needs to get back back to us when holographic video recordings become possible.
hmm, but how are they going to remaster star wars in holographic video? the industry won't go for it if they can't resell their back catalogue!
Pixar films look better in HD. Just saying. 
Agreed.
It's like the difference between a regular auto and a luxury sedan ... Although it's nice to drive a Mercedes or a Lexus, some are just content with a Toyota Camry.
Yeah, but that's the beauty of it, you don't have to "replace" your DVDs. I mean there's a few titles I have replaced either on HD-DVD or blu-ray (older catalogue titles tend to benefit greatly from this upgrade!), but for the most part, I buy newer releases in BD format. I still have some 700 DVDs that I can continue to enjoy well into the future since BD players upconvert to 1080p while allowing you to selectively purchase future and catalogue titles at your discretion.
I think there will come a time when real time three-dimensional translations of 2d films will be as commonplace as colorizing old black and white movies. That being said perhaps silent films don't need a sound reel included and b&w films don't need to be colorized and therefore 2dhd films won't need to be translated into uhdv holos.
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Question:
Do anyone here know whether or not the current Blu-ray players that are sold in the United States are region-free for all Blu-ray discs as well as all DVD discs, and will this be the case for Blu-ray players that are released in the American market for years to come?
Do anyone here know whether or not the current Blu-ray players that are sold in the United States are region-free for all Blu-ray discs as well as all DVD discs, and will this be the case for Blu-ray players that are released in the American market for years to come?
Well, to be honest, remember that the ONLY reason HD-DVD players were so low in price was that Toshiba was trying to get a bigger foot in the door; and they were effectively selling the HD-DVD players at a loss in hopes they would drive up demand for the format; and make their money back that way.
That wasn't what killed HD-DVD though...what did was the fact that NONE of the studios was happy that Microsoft had a big hand in the codex development, and they were worried that dwn the road, MS would be introducing proprietary codex encoders and would start doing to HD-DVD encoding, what they did for the Windows OS - charge or up an outrageous license fee that would drive up production costs.
No. Blu-Ray has region codes as well. Not the same ones as regular DVDs, but they do exist.
Many Blu-Ray titles are produced regionfree, though. It's kind of a crapshoot which ones are.
But don't most Blu-Ray discs use the VC-1 codec now?
^ Yes (and no, to a degree)... lemme explain. While BDs do have region limitations, not all discs use them. In my experience less then half of all US films on BD are region coded.
For more info check this site.
For more info check this site.
^ Most (maybe all, I'm not sure) BD players also use DVD region coding. So basically you won't be able to play R2 (Europe) DVDs in a US bought BD player.
There might be a couple of BD players that you can unlock though... I honestly couldn't tell you. I own a PS3 and have no desire to buy a standalone BD player at this point.
There might be a couple of BD players that you can unlock though... I honestly couldn't tell you. I own a PS3 and have no desire to buy a standalone BD player at this point.