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    Posted: May 07 2010 at 09:23
Which do you prefer?
 DVD or blu ray?
 
 
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This is an odd poll...

Blu Ray is the next gen of home video, like DVD was to video tape. DVDs display at a maximum of 480x720 res while Blu Ray displays "full HD" 1080x1920. Some blue ray transfers haven't been the best and sometimes they decide to not transfer the special features, but they will eventually. This is a poll where one contestant is literally better in every way than the other because it was designed to be.
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Maybe he meant do you buy DVD or Blu Ray, or do you think the slight increase in quality is worth it
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Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

This is an odd poll...

Blu Ray is the next gen of home video, like DVD was to video tape. DVDs display at a maximum of 480x720 res while Blu Ray displays "full HD" 1080x1920. Some blue ray transfers haven't been the best and sometimes they decide to not transfer the special features, but they will eventually. This is a poll where one contestant is literally better in every way than the other because it was designed to be.


You're right but you can still prefer dvd's over blu rays, just like some people prefer vinyls over cd's. Atleast I like dvd's way more than blu rays, which might be because I don't have a tv good enough to get advantages from using a blu ray disc LOL


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Just another scheme to get you to buy the same old movies, except you naturally have to upgrade your hardware too.

I'll stick with DVDs.
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I don't have the money to go out and buy everything to be able to fully enjoy Blu Ray, so DVD is fine by me. Besides, I hardly watch movies, I'd rather invest in music.
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Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Just another scheme to get you to buy the same old movies, except you naturally have to upgrade your hardware too.

I'll stick with DVDs.
 
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Originally posted by rpe9p rpe9p wrote:

Maybe he meant do you buy DVD or Blu Ray, or do you think the slight increase in quality is worth it


Slight increase? There's almost 3 time the pixels!



Maybe I just prefer it because I'm the visual equivalent to an audiophile. In a few years you'll all have blu ray players anyways, maybe you'll just be watching your crappy old DVDs on them TongueWink
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Blu Ray if you have enough money to burn.
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I got a Blu Ray player for Christmas.  I've bought a few Blu-Rays when I find them on sale, but they are pretty expensive in comparison to DVDs.  I like that it has brought down the price of DVDs.  For the most part I have been just renting Blu Rays from the local store.  I think with the newer movies that were made for Blu Ray the Blu Ray is better.  For older movies that are just being re-released on Blu Ray, I don't think that it really makes much of a difference.
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8-track tape...krapp I mean VHS...krapp again!! I mean VHS HQ...
 
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The bad part is that I think that Blu Ray came into this world already on life support.  Of course digital download already exists and will eventually eliminate physical copies, just like with music.
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

8-track tape...krapp I mean VHS...krapp again!! I mean VHS HQ...
 
Yea baby!!

Betamax is very hurt that you left it out. Tongue
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

8-track tape...krapp I mean VHS...krapp again!! I mean VHS HQ...
 
Yea baby!!


YES TO VHS!
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

I've bought a few Blu-Rays when I find them on sale, but they are pretty expensive in comparison to DVDs.
I often see the opposite: the same material published on double DVD and Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray is cheaper. Smile

I wanted to vote for Blu-Ray but clicked DVDCry
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RE image quality and that only, the DVD can't hold a candle to BluRay. Even if you rip a film from BluRay to a 2GB mkv file (for archiving purposes of course), the quality is still much better than on double-layer DVD.
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DVD cos I dont wanna buy everything again
 
 
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DVD, because there's no Blu-ray players in my neighborhood, while everyone here owns a DVD player.
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Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

Originally posted by rpe9p rpe9p wrote:

Maybe he meant do you buy DVD or Blu Ray, or do you think the slight increase in quality is worth it


Slight increase? There's almost 3 time the pixels!



Maybe I just prefer it because I'm the visual equivalent to an audiophile. In a few years you'll all have blu ray players anyways, maybe you'll just be watching your crappy old DVDs on them TongueWink

I'm not sure here, but is every Blu Ray (stupid name by the way, it should have been named Blue if you ask me) in this resolution, or are some in lower ?

Second thing - I can convert 100x100 video to 1900x1000 px big monster too, but result quality will be terrible. What I'm trying to say that with many DVD's, you have quality as good as possible (and you know how let's say pre 70's films can be terrible in quality), but it is still bad.

I remember having one old cartoon on dvd - it was almost flashing with brightness, like in waves of dark and bright picture quality. It was corny, but it was the best it could be.


But many people bought it because they saw it was on DVD and expected quality. Yeah, paper cover for DVD was nicely done, but what was inside was good old cartoon, not good in quality of picture.

Now let's apply this on Blu Ray
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Blu-Ray is definitely worth the effort of upgrading your gear. I'm about to watch the Sopranos on blu-ray, and the difference to DVD is striking. I've also watched many older movies (from the 60s or 70s) on blu-ray which had greatly improved resolution. Obviously it simply depends on the quality of the film material and cameras - there are also some movies from the 90s and onward that don't look great on blu-ray because they were filmed on poor material.

Examples of great movies and tv series on blu-ray:

- Sopranos
- Prison Break
- Godfather 1&2
- Patton
- Kill Bill 1&2
- Earth (AMAZING - but please only watch on a truly 1080p capable set)

And last, but not least:

- Batman Begins
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