Stop buying DVDs

[bluflu]

The Blu-ray haters are going to love to hate this article.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michae..._b_154840.html

[Blu Titan]

Very nice article.

[Siri]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

Very nice article.

+1

[Blu-Benny]

u'd swear he was a forum member!!

[xtop]

good article. no complaints about the misspelling? i'm shocked

[Blu_Ray_Fan]

Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

u'd swear he was a forum member!!

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

u'd swear he has a brain and basic ability to reason logically!!

Yeah, I know, right?

I really think it's funny that people would continue buying DVDs of titles they will want on Blu-ray eventually (especially people who ALREADY own BD players). No, you're not saving money by buying a single disc DVD copy of The Dark Knight, because that just means 17 bucks wasted on nothing when you finally get around to buying the Blu-ray (that won't be breaking even unless you can buy TDK on BD later on for the price of the current difference between the cheap DVD and the BD). The only way you WOULDN'T save money in the long run by switching to Blu-ray is if you buy like less than 5 movies per year and will not be getting Blu-ray for a few years.

[jasontkelley1746]

I wish people would stop referencing msrp for pricing. People need to know that they are really good deals to be had online. I paid an average of about $14 for all of my blu's, thats less than half of what MSRP is.

[blu-mike]

God I hate DVD and those people that say blu-ray is the new laserdisc or DVD is wayyyy better. even a guy at my local best buy he was talking to about 10 or 15 people about blu-ray is better than DVD He Blurted "Dud Oh I mean DVD"

[STARSCREAM]

Awesome article.

[Bizdady]

My coworker is going ga ga over netflix. He just switched from blockbuster and is trying to prove me wrong that streaming doesnt compare to blu.

[BluRay2344]

OOO i stopped a long time ago!

[Nerdkiller likes BD]

My parents just got a new HDTV today (720p. Damn it) so I should see plenty of BD's coming to our house soon enough. Its brilliant seeing that for once, someone is behind blu.

[SillyMammo]

Kudos to Michael Glitz! People who say the upscaled dvds are as good as Blu-ray are like people saying colorized black and white movies are as good as films shot in color.

[Blu3]

Originally Posted by Bizdady

My coworker is going ga ga over netflix. He just switched from blockbuster and is trying to prove me wrong that streaming doesnt compare to blu.

He'll soon see the light. The difference is small, about the same as an upconverted dvd to blu, so that's why most people don't notice it. The audio though, shouldn't compare.

[Blu3]

Originally Posted by jasontkelley1746

I wish people would stop referencing msrp for pricing. People need to know that they are really good deals to be had online. I paid an average of about $14 for all of my blu's, thats less than half of what MSRP is.

+1

These articles need to stop using the damn $39.99 MSRPs, even the store chains don't charge MSRP. Most I've seen for a movie at BB, for example, is ~$35. And people should know that online is ~$30 and under.

[JamesKurtovich]

It's Blu-ray, not BluRay.

[poogie]

As economy still affects a lot of people, people still want to get the best of their money can buy. Walmart are selling their DVDs for as low as $5.00. To me, it's a surplus they can't sell.

Maybe they need to put the advertisement on the entrance instead of putting them in the corner. Blu-ray disc association should not relax advertising Blu-ray as a lot of people still not onboard with this format.

[Blu3]

The article is good for blu support

The only thing I disagree with is his questioning on why old movies cost twice as much as dvd. Sure, on the surface it doesn't make much sense, the movie's old and now cheaply and widely available, but once you realize the entire movie is restored frame by frame for BD, which can take hundreds of hours of work, you understand why it costs as much as a new movie, which doesn't need to go through restoration. Hopefully, as momentum picks up, so will volume for old movie restorations, which will hopefully drive down costs, keeping the cost of a blu version of an old movie closer to its current cost on dvd.

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by Bizdady

My coworker is going ga ga over netflix. He just switched from blockbuster and is trying to prove me wrong that streaming doesnt compare to blu.

It "compares". It just doesn't equal it.

In fact, it doesn't even compare favorably. I'd say that upscaled DVD compares more favorably, just because audio isn't limited as heavily and you actually get the extras like commentary and deleted scenes.

Originally Posted by poogie

As economy still affects a lot of people, people still want to get the best of their money can buy. Walmart are selling their DVDs for as low as $5.00. To me, it's a surplus they can't sell.

Not new releases... New release DVDs are usually only about 5 dollars cheaper than a comparable BD release of the same film.

Only on catalog titles does the price gap become enormous and that's only because of the age of the previous DVD release. Either way, the old catalog titles that you might already own on DVD are identified in the article as ones you probably shouldn't bother with on BD, at least as long as the price is absurd.

Anyway, this is clearly directed at people who buy movies. If you can't afford to buy movies, I'd say you shouldn't even be screwing around with DVD... save your cash for things like food and bills if you're that hard for cash.

the entire movie is restored frame by frame for BD

Nine times outta ten this is not the case. Some of the BD releases use existing digital transfers, some use new digital transfers, but most of them are not restored frame-by-frame. Do you have any idea how much that sort of restoration would cost the studio and how much they'd in turn charge for the movie to recoup their investment?

No... the reason catalog titles cost so much more than their DVD counterpart is because it's expected. The market is not yet saturated with the title in the format, so they charge the upper end that they can at first, then drop it down after a while. If the film continues to sell well at a higher price, it'll remain there, if it does not, it will drop, until it hits the area of like 10~15 bucks. But this takes time... they're not going to drop Dumb and Dumber down to 15 bucks the week after it's newly released in the format, they need to maximize profit by maintaining price until everyone who will buy it at the higher price has had a chance to.