We already have HDTV, so why are we so excited about blu-ray?

[tron3]

Originally Posted by Malosch78

We don't have HD TV in Denmark ... maybe in 2009
Blu-ray is the only way to watch HD, and Blu-ray is the best sollution.

So you have HDTV's but no broadcast for it? That is really odd. Then again, I did buy mine early 2004 mostly for the widescreen for watching DVD and the PIP.

Some time later got the HD tuner for it. Was still a couple of more weeks to get the right antenna. Even then only a few stations were in HD. Fox being one of them, I was very happy. Once in a while I would go back and re-run the tuner and find another station or two were added. Good times.

[HDJK]

Europe settled for 720P as a broadcast standard. There is Full HD over satellite like Premiere but content is rare over all. So I'm really satisfied with what my PS3 can do

[jdc115]

Originally Posted by tron3

So you have HDTV's but no broadcast for it? That is really odd. Then again, I did buy mine early 2004 mostly for the widescreen for watching DVD and the PIP.

It is the same in Singapore, most of the TV's sold now are probably HD ready LCD and plasma HD almost no content. The cable system only recently started to broadcast HD and only 2 channels (discovery and Nat Geo). A local channel started to broadcast over the air HD last month which has some local programming (Singaporean shows) and some US shows like CSI.

They do sell blu-ray and HD-dvd but both very expensive. The lowest standaline blu-ray player is US$1000 that I have seen. The PS3 is about US$650. Personally, I only know one person that has watched a blu-ray disk here which he plays on a PS3.

I would guess everybody here will own a HD by the time they really embrace HD content.

[CptGreedle]

There are NO HD signals from Sat or Cable that come close to the quality of a Blu-ray. I look closely at some of the best scenes in HD such as Sunrise Earth, Planet Earth, and other HD films, and the compression is enormous. I have to sit a ways back to watch it to avoid cringing from the compression error. (Luckily I can do this so there is no problem). But the Blu-ray is just PERFECT! There is no compression errors, no signal interruption, no signal degradation, and no commercials in SD .
Watching films like Happy Feet and the like on Blu-ray have such high quality, that I gladly use BD to show off my system every time!

[Sonny]

The BD movie open season is prefect even the HBO-HD version is near perfect

[Blu Tiger]

I love blu-ray! We might have had HDTV's, but how much 1080p source material have we had so far? That's the difference.

[aygie]

Originally Posted by Sonny

The BD movie open season is prefect even the HBO-HD version is near perfect

Why so much equipment?