Where can I find good blu ray movie/tv reviews?

[Jayson1]

I'm pretty sure I am getting a blu ray for Christmas so my family has been asking me about what movies/shows etc I might also want but to do that and also to get them in the future I have no idea how to check up on which things are worth getting on blu ray,as oposed to dvd or buying it off Amazon prime.

I can find the price of things pretty good but what I am having problems is finding the blu ray extra's that might come with the things. For example I have been trying to find out what is on "Fringe the complete boxset" but I can't find anything on the extra's.

Speaking of blu rays, can you get a player that stretches the images if you like such as zoom or watch it in fullscreen or widescreen etc? How are they different from dvd players?

Jason

 

[Tosk]

Blu-ray dot com.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Speaking of blu rays, can you get a player that stretches the images if you like such as zoom or watch it in fullscreen or widescreen etc? How are they different from dvd players?

They're pretty much the same when it comes to just playing a disc. My player connects to the internet so I use it to watch Netflix other streaming services. But it's pretty old, so I'm sure newer ones have other bells and whistles
The Zoom feature is pretty standard, but you're always going to lose part of the picture when you use it. The format is on the disc not the player.

 

[Jayson1]

So I was looking at some blu ray players online. Do you think it's valuable to have a player that can play disks from different regions? I was looking at some "Evil Dead" blu rays and I guess their is one boxset were you can get all the movies but for some reason all the movies can be played on a American player except for Evil Dead 2? Is that like a common problem and does different regions offer better quality of disks?

Jason

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

TV's have the ability to zoom/stretch/etc.

For some reason my Mom keeps changing her TV to zoom, instead of keeping it in 16:9 mode. The picture is bigger for her to see, but a lot of stuff gets cut off.

 

[Jayson1]

TV's have the ability to zoom/stretch/etc.

For some reason my Mom keeps changing her TV to zoom, instead of keeping it in 16:9 mode. The picture is bigger for her to see, but a lot of stuff gets cut off.

My tv has Just Scan,Normal,Wide,Zoom and Cinema but I don't understand why normal and zoom seem to be the exact same thing. Also when I had Dish you could format the zoom to be not so big where it cut tons of stuff off the edges and top but I can't seem to figure out how to do that with my tv or my Amazon Fire Stick.

Jason

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

So I was looking at some blu ray players online. Do you think it's valuable to have a player that can play disks from different regions? I was looking at some "Evil Dead" blu rays and I guess their is one boxset were you can get all the movies but for some reason all the movies can be played on a American player except for Evil Dead 2? Is that like a common problem and does different regions offer better quality of disks?

Jason

If you have lots of cash spare, perhaps go for a 4K UHD player and discs if you can afford them - there is no region encoding for UHD discs but the choice is a bit limited at present and might not improve too much as more people seem to use streaming now. Some region A Blu-ray players that have supposedly been made region-free apparently can't handle PAL region 2 DVDs. A converted region B player should be able to manage both legacy PAL and NTSC discs but you'd need to check. However, I rarely buy discs nowadays as I prefer to subscribe to streaming and either rent or buy what I want to watch. I also have both a UHD player that plays region B Blu-ray discs and region 2 DVDs, and a Blu-ray player (actually a Dune Max) that can be configured to play any region of Blu-ray or DVD. BTW, Warner Brothers discs are never region encoded, but a region A/1 player might struggle to play some of their DVDs if they are PAL encoded imports.

 

[Jayson1]

If you have lots of cash spare, perhaps go for a 4K UHD player and discs if you can afford them - there is no region encoding for UHD discs but the choice is a bit limited at present and might not improve too much as more people seem to use streaming now. Some region A Blu-ray players that have supposedly been made region-free apparently can't handle PAL region 2 DVDs. A converted region B player should be able to manage both legacy PAL and NTSC discs but you'd need to check. However, I rarely buy discs nowadays as I prefer to subscribe to streaming and either rent or buy what I want to watch. I also have both a UHD player that plays region B Blu-ray discs and region 2 DVDs, and a Blu-ray player (actually a Dune Max) that can be configured to play any region of Blu-ray or DVD. BTW, Warner Brothers discs are never region encoded, but a region A/1 player might struggle to play some of their DVDs if they are PAL encoded imports.

No I rarely have much money to spend. I mostly want one and disks for the special stuff like Trek and Star Wars and stuff like that or things I am interested in that has good bonus features. Also maybe a few things I worry about disapearing. 10 years from now who is going to still remember "Space Above and Beyond" or "Homicide:Life on the Streets?"

Jason

 

[Starbreaker]

www.bluray.com They give individual ratings to picture, sound, and extras. Most of the box sets are loaded with extras.

 

[Kor]

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Speaking of blu rays, can you get a player that stretches the images if you like such as zoom or watch it in fullscreen or widescreen etc? How are they different from dvd players?

Jason

I remember DVD players with zoom capability.

But it seems that these days, if you want to zoom, you have to have that function on the TV because blu-ray players don't have it. I think a lot of HD TVs have various zoom settings.

Kor