Blu-ray in Europe

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Originally Posted by gvortex7

I'm a European living in the US and all I can tell you is that as much as I like independent cinema, it is mainstream Hollywood blockbusters and action movies that will help propel the adoption of Blu-ray and not art house movies. Once Blu-ray is established as the de facto standard for high-def movies, then you will see a great influx of quality, lesser known movies from all corners of the world.

I may have misunderstood what ESF is saying, but I think he is more complaining about what Hollywood is producing than asking for lesser known art house movies to be released on Blu-ray.

I agree with the complaints about Hollywood, I think the quality of mainstream movies has gone WAY downhill in recent years. The Prestige is a rare example of a recent fairly mainstream movie that stimulates the brain a bit rather than just being full of endless boring action sequences. I've bought tens of Blu-ray discs, but very few of them are movies I regard as truly exceptional, I can really only think of The Prestige and Blade Runner off the top of my head.