Have you converted yet?

[Trekker4747]

Brothers and sisters! Come and sit before me and hear my words! I am here to ask you to confess your conversion to me! Let not this be a sin against your past, but a blessing unto your future.

I speak, of course, about Blu-Ray. Have you converted yet? That-is, are you buying Blu-Rays yet over DVDs? Are you converting movies you have on DVD to Blu-Ray by buying the BD release?

Me? I've partly converted. I'm not likely to re-buy/"double dip" my already bought movies unless something comes out that blows me away that just has to be seen on BD. Most new movies I buy are going to be on BD, I've been this way since the Star Trek (2009) DVDs came out. TV series? Not yet, for the sake of consistency I'm buying all current series I'm collecting on DVD. So I'd have to start a new series that I really like and deem worthy of a DVD purchase to buy it on BD.

But how are you doing? Still buying DVD (that's sooooo 2001!) or are you buying Blu-Ray?

Are you re-buying your old movies/TV series on BD and going to see what the DVD will get you on eBay or next week's garage sale?

Tell us, friends, and confess your media sins.

 

[Kirby]

Not converting to Blu-Ray, but then again I'm not really buying DVDs right now either.

I've been streaming Netflix quite a bit lately.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Still haven't converted to BD. I have a ps3 but I already have most of the older movies I really like on dvd and I really haven't seen a new movie lately that was worthy of me buying on blu ray.

 

[Geck]

Don't have a Blu-ray player yet, so still buying DVDs. For TV series at least - I don't buy movies.

I'm a traditionalist though, so don't see myself changing over to Blu-ray anytime soon. Heck, I still buy half a dozen CDs a month. None of this digital music download business.

 

[Aragorn]

I pretty much converted the moment I bought a PlayStation 3 even though I thought HD-DVD would win the format war. Of course, I get the HD-DVD add-on for the Xbox 360 and that's when that particular format dies.

A lot of TV shows though aren't on Blu and probably will never be on Blu because of poor sales or the cost it would take to upgrade them, so I just bought the fifth season of Quantum Leap on DVD because it was cheap. Of course, that hasn't stopped Highlander: The Series from being put onto Blu with no upgrading whatsoever.

And a certain anarchist poster's asinine rants against Blu-ray have encouraged me to buy more.

 

[Goliath]

For now, I'm still singing "Gimme that old-time religion."

But I expect I'll convert to Blu-Ray at some point. Probably around the same time I buy a stereo HD flatscreen to replace my fourteen-year-old mono tube TV.

 

[PsychoPere]

I purchased a Blu-ray player earlier this year and currently have 22 titles for the format. None of them are titles I previously owned on DVD, and I don't anticipate that there are many DVDs in my library that I will replace with BDs. Instead, I'm just making all new purchases in BD format.

 

[Amaris]

Oh yes, I've had a Blu-ray player for some time now.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Me too.

I re-buy all my existing stuff as soon as it comes out on Blu-Ray. And the only standard definition DVDs I still buy are TV shows - some that I'm not sure when, if ever, will be released on BR (like the various Law & Order-verse shows, which have generally been glacially slow in their DVD release, so BR is not looking promising there), and some that can never ever be (like Red Green, which was shot on videotape and so is unreleasable on BR in high definition).

 

[RoJoHen]

I buy Blu-Rays, but not exclusively. Some things just aren't worth the extra money.

 

[Captain Craig]

I buy Blu-Rays, but not exclusively. Some things just aren't worth the extra money.

Ditto.
I got my BR player in Feb only after my sister got me Watchmen & Terminator Salvation on BR for X-Mas by mistake.
I got the player on sale and currently only have 7 BR titles and one tv season.

 

[doubleohfive]

No. At least, not yet. Unfortunately I just don't have the spare change required to make such a conversion at the moment, and while it would be nice to be able to make the switch, I just can't justify it. There are better, more worthwhile things to spend my money on.

 

[Sparky]

I've converted to Blu-Ray. Any titles I have purchased since then have been BR only. I have upgraded to BR on select titles, but I feel no need to upgrade everything.

 

[Lord Garth]

Got a VCR in 1990.

Got a DVD Player in 2001.

Got a Blu-Ray Player in 2008.

I've double-dipped from VHS to DVD but I haven't double-dipped from DVD to Blu-Ray. And I have no plans to triple-dip.

 

[Spot's Meow]

No, Blu-Ray pretty much doesn't exist in my life at this point. None of my friends or family seem interested in it, much like me. Besides not having the money, I've sort of stopped buying DVDs at all. I stream or rent most of the stuff I want to watch through Netflix. I don't worry about buying it because if I want to see it again, I'll just go back to Netflix. So basically I use Netflix as my own personal DVD/online streaming library. It's just so damn cheap that it has certainly been worth it, even when there's those rare occasions that they don't have something I want.

My current DVD library is really not that big. I count 40 DVDs (including TV seasons and movies) and 29 VHS. I still own 1 VCR, 2 DVD/VCR combos, and 2 DVD players. Our main TV is a 19-inch CRT that I have no desire to part with. So what's the point of upgrading? Everything works perfect as is. I only see myself buying Blu-Rays if someone gets me the player as a gift. But honestly I would probably rent the movies instead, I just don't prefer to buy.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I have nothing that plays BRs and don't plan on getting anything that does anytime soon.

 

[Brandonv]

I still don't have a Blu-ray player. For now I still watch all my movies on either DVD or as iTunes rentals.

My new monitor supports HDCP and can do 1080p, so I am thinking that when my current DVD drive stops working I will replace it with a Blu-ray drive.

 

[Orac Zen]

No, and I have no real interest in doing so at this stage.

 

[Starbreaker]

I quit buying DVDs and have only double dipped on two titles.

 

[auntiehill]

I rarely buy DVDs; I most rent. I have no plans to convert to a Blu-Ray player any time in the near future.