One thing that DVD has over Blu-ray

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by MikeZ.

Also, guaranteed not to lose your place when you stop it.

The majority of my Blu-rays don't do that. But do own a few that do.

[halloween5309]

Originally Posted by crazyBLUE

Better yet ~ My new Samsung player I paid 69 dollars for asks me every time if I want to resume or go back to the main menu This is even with disc's I have not played on it

Not bad IMO & I am not a gamer

what model samsung do you have?

[David M]

Originally Posted by Egons Ghost

Sh!t happens. Trying to be so careful all the time I inevitably drop a disc, read side down, of course..

Yeah, but dropping a BD isn't gonna kill it, unless you drag it around the floor trying to pick it back up?

[mogwai_macabre]

I own a few hundred or so Blu-ray, many of which I bought used, and many of which have some light scratches from 'normal' usage (by normal I mean by the way an idiot handles a disc). Only one has skipped, and only briefly. Really, I don't think any of my DVDs are skipping either.

Do you have a lot of Blu-ray that are skipping? I find that kind of odd.

On another note, I think the packaging for DVDs was much better overall. No blue case, no Digital HD + DVD + Blu-ray + Blu-ray 3D banner at the top. Special editions were cooler.

[zeze]

Originally Posted by Lyris

Honestly, I still don't understand why people complain about the durability of optical media. The discs are packaged in protective boxes which prevent against damage.

(Granted if it's rentals, I get the complaint. I've had rental discs freeze up on me because apparently some people are too dim to hold a disc by the edges and center hole!)

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Eco cases, disc sleeves, stacked disc hubs, etc... say hi

Yeah the discs I have problems with (scratches) are brand new and are mainly discs from eco cases or disc sleeves (House of Cards).

[zeze]

Originally Posted by mogwai_macabre

I own a few hundred or so Blu-ray, many of which I bought used, and many of which have some light scratches from 'normal' usage (by normal I mean by the way an idiot handles a disc). Only one has skipped, and only briefly. Really, I don't think any of my DVDs are skipping either.

Do you have a lot of Blu-ray that are skipping? I find that kind of odd.

On another note, I think the packaging for DVDs was much better overall. No blue case, no Digital HD + DVD + Blu-ray + Blu-ray 3D banner at the top. Special editions were cooler.

I have come across 7-8 so far, but I have not watched a majority of my collection yet. Some of them only freeze for a split second (which I can live with) but others freeze for quite a bit and throughout the movie.

I guess it just becomes more frustrating when this happens twice in the last couple of weeks (first with Black Rain and now with Stage Fright).

[Arch Stanton]

Don't think I've ever scratched a Blu Ray disc. Thought I might have done when I was struggling to get Only God Forgives out (came with a security tag on) but it was absolutely fine.

[CinemaScope]

Well s/hand DVD's are so damn cheap, almost give-away. Very handy if you just want to see a film, & a lot of them do look very good...& a vast choice.

[mogwai_macabre]

Originally Posted by MichaelB

All three of my Blu-ray players remember where I was last time I played the disc. it's a player issue, not a format one.

Not all Blu-ray discs support resume, regardless of the player. Discs coded with BD-Java cannot resume, as well as some others.

[bigdaddyhorse]

Originally Posted by mogwai_macabre

Not all Blu-ray discs support resume, regardless of the player. Discs coded with BD-Java cannot resume, as well as some others.

I have 3 different players and none will resume a Universal title if it goes out for any reason.

[Rottweiler30]

Nearly every DVD has a nice menu.

Too many BD's just start playing.

[Rottweiler30]

The jump in quality between the previous format was bigger with DVD, and therefore the excitement also.

For all the years I was buying DVDs I'd grab them as soon as they came through the letterbox rip off the cellophane just to give them a quick spin and check the menus, picture quality etc.

Now, even though BDs are clearly better I've had unopened titles on my shelf for 5 years.

[Geoff D]

Isn't the data layer nearer the surface on a BD? I've had DVDs scratched to shit (not by my own hand, I hasten to add) which play fine but I've had BDs with an absolutely tiny little mark on them give playback errors. Again, not by my hand, that's how they were straight out of the packaging. I had a couple like that in the Harry Potter Wizards collection.

[Eny-]

Originally Posted by Rottweiler30

The jump in quality between the previous format was bigger with DVD, and therefore the excitement also.

For all the years I was buying DVDs I'd grab them as soon as they came through the letterbox rip off the cellophane just to give them a quick spin and check the menus, picture quality etc.

Now, even though BDs are clearly better I've had unopened titles on my shelf for 5 years.

I have the opposite experience?

Blu-ray breathes life into movies that I have seen countless times over the years. They are all revelations.

With DVD was basically just the convenience and the fact that didn't degrade over time vs VHS.

[Rottweiler30]

The jump between VHS and DVD was clearly bigger than the jump between DVD and Blu ray.

[blonde_devil]

With the starting and stopping of blu-rays, it is a disc thing as I have some I can stop today and start tomorrow and I have to start all over again but I have others that I can throw in a month from now and they will pick up exactly where I left off.

With dvd and scratches, I know what you mean. You can scratch up a dvd pretty bad but it does seem they are built fairly strong. I wonder if it was a case of they over did it a little when they first came out in the 90's and just kept doing that but with blu-ray, they let up a little since it was cheaper and since people tend to treat dvd and blu-ray discs with care anyways.

I agree with Rottweiler30 about the jumps. VHS to dvd was a huge change because it was a change in media. I think a lot of people still just see blu-ray as an improvement on dvd and don't really realize how different they are. In the end, the are both still disc based media and operate the same way for the user so it isn't nearly as shocking or impressive as it was going from that bulky tape with poor sound and resolution to a disc where everything is improved. Laserdisc could have been that but it just didn't hit the mass market enough.

[Falaskan]

Well, I always liked the size and color or the DVD boxes, and most of the cover art is superior. I think many studios thought that would be the best home video could be!

[mrr1]

Originally Posted by Lyris

Granted if it's rentals, I get the complaint.

Big time. I have rented so many DVDs and Blu Rays that look like another customer did a brake stand on them.

It's one big reason why I love the Netflix age.

[mrr1]

Originally Posted by MichaelB

And every time I watch a VHS tape, I'm always struck by how not-bad it looks given the propaganda.

VHS is inferior to DVD, but if the tape was in good condition it certainly wasn't terrible.

Since I am old, I have an old Beta machine (still works!) that I used to record Star Wars off the movie channel back in the early 80s. I put that tape in just a couple of years ago to see how it held up, and it looks *almost* as good as DVD. My old movies I recorded with my Betamax camcorder (backed up in digital) look great, too. I can see why TV and news stations in the 80s & 90s all used Beta. Beta was a solid videotape format. Sony really hooped themselves on the consumer side, though.

[Rottweiler30]

The thing I hated most about VHS is that I could buy a film watch it and it'd be fine. Then the next time I put it in it could have a jump or a line just from being sat on my shelf.

Also lending them out they'd come back with jumps even when both VCRs were working fine.

You can understand how a disc could come back damaged (scratches finger prints etc, but I'm pretty sure my friends didn't flip open the top of the cassette and scrunch up the tape.

They had a mind of their own.